Jordan Peterson

The acts of life we repeat every day need to be automatized. They must be turned into stable and reliable habits, so they lose their complexity and gain predictability and simplicity.

To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.

Then you may be able to accept the terrible burden of the World, and find joy.

Chaos is the experience of reeling unbound and unsupported through space when your guiding routines and traditions collapse.

To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

You need to know where you are going, so that you can limit the extent of chaos in your life, restructure order, and bring the divine force of Hope to bear on the world.

Maybe I should at least wait, to help you, until it’s clear that you want to be helped.

. A good, healthy person is an ideal. It requires strength and daring to stand up near such a person. Have some humility. Have some courage. Use your judgment, and protect yourself from too-uncritical compassion and pity.

life sucks, and then you die