You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
JORDAN PETERSONThat which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Much of happiness is hope.
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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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