But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
JORDAN PETERSONAssume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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What you aim at determines what you see.
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That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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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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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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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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Much of happiness is hope.
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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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