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“ ”What shall I do with my parents? Act such that your actions justify the suffering they endured. To act to justify the suffering of your parents is to remember all the sacrifices that all the others who lived before you (not least your parents) have made for you in all the course of the terrible past, to be grateful for all the progress that has been thereby made, and then to act in accordance with that remembrance & gratitude. People sacrificed immensely to bring about what we have now. In many cases, they literally died for it - & we should act with some respect for that fact.
About Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2017), Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021) and We Who Wrestle With God (2024)
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Additional quotes by Jordan B. Peterson
Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.
but damaged machinery will continue to malfunction if its problems are neither diagnosed nor fixed.
Every game has rules... The first of these rules is that the game is important. If it wasn't important, you wouldn't be playing it.