Nishit

“The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Knowing the truth is fairly useless; feeling it is profound; living it makes all the difference.”
― David Deida, Blue Truth

“The real act of, say, building a friendship or creating a community involves performing a series of small, concrete social actions well: disagreeing without poisoning the relationship; revealing vulnerability at the appropriate pace; being a good listener; knowing how to end a conversation gracefully; knowing how to ask for and offer forgiveness; knowing how to let someone down without breaking their heart; knowing how to sit with someone who is suffering; knowing how to host a gathering where everyone feels embraced; knowing how to see things from another’s point of view.”
― David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

“We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown— and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos