Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.

Choose your friends carefully. You are affected, for better or worse, by the people you spend your time with.

People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds.

The meaningful life is too often sacrificed to temporal well-being. Everyone serves someone. You serve your boss, perhaps. It’s not that easy to serve God. It’s not that easy to serve the truth. It’s not that easy to do the right thing.

Stop doing what you know to be wrong. Stop today. Don’t waste time questioning how you know that what you’re doing is wrong, if you are certain that it is.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Discipline, properly conceived, is part of the manifestation of love. Proper discipline is a foundation for the development of a proper character.

Surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not. This will help bolster your resolve to do what you should do, in the most appropriate and careful manner.

Aim up, pay attention, fix what you can and don’t be arrogant in your knowledge, strive for humility, because totalitarian pride manifests itself in intolerance, oppression, torture, and death.

Meaning is the way, the path of life more abundant, the place you live when you are guided by love and speaking truth and when nothing you want or could possibly want takes any precedence over precisely that.

A lobster only appears stable and secure because it moves forward or retreats, and mostly stays out of combat. But if it has to fight, it’s all fight and no flight. Its tail stands up straight, like an exclamation mark. Its posture prepares it for reactive dominance displays and combat, not only the former. So, standing up means something like this: I am ready to face the challenge.

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.﻿

Life is suffering. That’s clear. There is no more basic, irrefutable truth. It’s basically what defines the game. But there’s a lot of games. Playing isn’t so bad, if you can play these games with other people. After all, we’re social animals. And there’s meaning in the genuine interactions with other people.

Take time out of your busy day, to stop and appreciate the simple and insignificant things in life. It will brighten up your day at best.

Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant. Try to make friends whose lives are not lived entirely privately. A party is an opportunity to make a new friend, and a friend is a second self. Partake in parties.

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future.

Responsibility makes being a son, a friend, a partner, a father, and a mother much easier. Being the devil incarnate, the cause of every unnecessary and unjustifiable suffering? That’s hard.

You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have a vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.

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.

If your life is not what it could be, try telling the truth. If you cling desperately to an ideology, or wallow in nihilism, try telling the truth. If you feel weak and rejected, and desperate, and confused, try telling the truth. In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.

Here are the top inspirational quotes from the book 12 Rules For Life by Jordan Peterson. Watch daily shorts about quotes & summaries from this book on my YT Channel: Rapid Growth Academy

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER  #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.

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Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative. Peterson has described himself as a classic British liberal and a traditionalist.

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