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“Peterson is the new Winthrop. The Puritans are on the march again, furiously cleaning their rooms because cleanliness is next to Godliness.”
― Joe Dixon, Clean Up Your Room!: The Eternal Spotless Mind of Jordan Peterson

“...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love

“We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who were allotted to us, that they were given to us by chance. But we can choose whose children we would like to be. There are households of the noblest intellects: choose the one into which you wish to be adopted, and you will inherit not only their name but their property too. Nor will this property need to be guarded meanly or grudgingly: the more it is shared out, the greater it will become.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

“We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love.”
― Alain de Botton, The Course of Love