The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, lost in a forest remote from all human habitation.

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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. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. - Jordan Peterson

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Love is an endless mystery because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde

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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. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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When you have something to say, silence is a lie. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ― Jim Rohn

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