Jordan Peterson Quotes

There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Different Freedom Life Strength Worth
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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People Soul Spiritual
The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Danger Goodness Gratitude Protection Reality Victim
It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Better Protection Yourself
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Age Inspirational Skill Success
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Equality Hurt Inspirational Protection Transformation Yourself
So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
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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Existence Thinking Tolerance
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Care Worth Yourself
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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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
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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Believe Important Responsibility Truth
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Company Improvement Live People Yourself
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself

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