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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell

“Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better”
― Ron Rash, Serena

“Love, too, has to be learned.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“It's not the substance of what you make known to me that's beautiful; it's the opening of your heart. It is the 'yes' in your heart to be mine. The fact that you are revealing the secrets and letting me peer into your heart--that is in itself the beautiful part.”
― Dana Candler, Deep Unto Deep: The Journey of His Embrace

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson

“A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known—that’s sin.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“The fact that a symphony ends does not mean it was not worth listening to.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“In other words, you decide to act as if existence might be justified by its goodness—if only you behaved properly. And it is that decision, that declaration of existential faith, that allows you to overcome nihilism, and resentment, and arrogance. It is that declaration of faith that keeps hatred of Being, with all its attendant evils, at bay. And, as for such faith: it is not at all the will to believe things that you know perfectly well to be false. Faith is not the childish belief in magic. That is ignorance or even willful blindness. It is instead the realization that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being. It is simultaneously the will to dare set your sights at the unachievable, and to sacrifice everything, including (and most importantly) your life.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”
― Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
― C.G. Jung

“What shall I do when my enemy succeeds? Aim a little higher and be grateful for the lesson.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“The only time no ever means no in the absence of violence is when it is uttered by one civilized person to another.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
― C.G. Jung

“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
― C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“And if there is something that is not good, then there is something that is good. If the worst sin is the torment of others, merely for the sake of the suffering produced—then the good is whatever is diametrically opposed to that. The good is whatever stops such things from happening.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Satan says, offering the next temptation. “If God exists, He will surely save you. If you are in fact his Son, God will surely save you.” Why would God not make Himself manifest, to rescue His only begotten Child from hunger and isolation and the presence of great evil? But that establishes no pattern for life. It doesn’t even work as literature. The deus ex machina—the emergence of a divine force that magically rescues the hero from his predicament—is the cheapest trick in the hack writer’s playbook. It makes a mockery of independence, and courage, and destiny, and free will, and responsibility. Furthermore, God is in no wise a safety net for the blind. He’s not someone to be commanded to perform magic tricks, or forced into Self-revelation—not even by His own Son.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“But there will be times in your life when it will take everything you have to face what is in front of you, instead of hiding away from a truth so terrible that the only thing worse is the falsehood you long to replace it with.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

“We experience much of our positive emotion in relation to goals. We are not happy, technically speaking, unless we see ourselves progressing—and the very idea of progression implies value. Worse yet is the fact that the meaning of life without positive value is not simply neutral. Because we are vulnerable and mortal, pain and anxiety are an integral part of human existence. We must have something to set against the suffering that is intrinsic to Being. We must have the meaning inherent in a profound system of value or the horror of existence rapidly becomes paramount. Then, nihilism beckons, with its hopelessness and despair.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Depressed people, for example, can start feeling useless and burdensome, as well as grief-stricken and pained. This makes them withdraw from contact with friends and family. Then the withdrawal makes them more lonesome and isolated, and more likely to feel useless and burdensome. Then they withdraw more. In this manner, depression spirals and amplifies.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos