"It is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives, and time spent the same way over and again adds up at an alarming rate."
- Jordan Peterson
"Maybe your misery is your attempt to prove the world's injustice, instead of the evidence of your own sin, your own missing of the mark, your conscious refusal to strive and to live."
- Jordan Peterson
"Are you so sure the person crying out to be saved has not decided a thousand times to accept his lot of pointless and worsening suffering, simply because it is easier than shouldering any true responsibility?"
- Jordan Peterson
"People are so tortured by the limitations and constraints of Being that I am amazed they ever act properly or look beyond themselves at all."
- Jordan Peterson
"It's easier in the moment to stay silent and avoid conflict. But in the long term, that's deadly. When you have something to say, silence is a lie - and tyranny feeds on lies."
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"Most individuals are dealing with one or more serious health problems while going productively and uncomplainingly about their business."
- Jordan Peterson
"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 Peterson
"Children are damaged when those charged with their care, afraid of any conflict or upset, no longer dare to correct them, and leave them without guidance. I can recognize such children on the street. They are doughy and unfocused and vague."
- Jordan Peterson
“You must determine where you are going, so that you can bargain for yourself, so that you don’t end up resentful, vengeful and cruel.”
- Jordan Peterson
"Imagine that you're unhappy. You're not getting what you need. Perversely, this may be because of what you want. You are blind, because of what you desire."
- Jordan Peterson