JORDAN B. PETERSON

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 th...

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.

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.

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

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 di...

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...

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.