Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

It takes careful observation, and education, and reflection, and communication with others, just to scratch the surface of your beliefs.

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.

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 deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.

The light that you discover in your life is proportionate to the amount of the darkness you are willing to forthrightly confront.

Face the demands of life voluntarily. Respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for catastrophe.

When you have something to say, silence is a lie.

The truth is something that burns, it burns off deadwood and people don’t like having their deadwood burnt off often because they’re 95 percent deadwood.

Five hundred small decisions, five hundred tiny actions, compose your day, today, and every day.

What would the world be like if people stopped avoiding things they knew they should do?

I will trust you — I will extend my hand to you — despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me.

You need to be occupied with something weighty, deep, profound, and difficult.