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Quotes from Jordan B Peterson

No matter how good you are at something, or how you rank your accomplishments, there is someone out there who makes you look incompetent.
~ Jordan B Peterson
What reality is is an emergent consequence of the interaction between something that is painfully limited-- like us-- and whatever the absolute is, which is something that is completely without borders.
~ Jordan B Peterson
It is the things that occur every single day that truly make up our lives.
~ Jordan B Peterson
Imagine, more precisely, that you are so afraid that you will not allow yourself even to know what you want. Knowing would simultaneously mean hoping, and your hopes have been dashed. You have your reasons for maintaining your ignorance. You are afraid, perhaps, that there is nothing worth wanting;
~ Jordan B Peterson
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look (in sterquilinis invenitur defined)
~ Jordan B Peterson
You cannot maintain trust in yourself if you lie. You cannot maintain trust in yourself, likewise, if you act in a manner that would require a lie if it was discovered.
~ Jordan B Peterson
Order is the stability of your marriage. It's buttressed by the traditions of the past and by your expectations-grounded, often invisibly, in those traditions. Chaos is that stability crumbling under your feet when you discover your partner's infidelity. Chaos is the experience of reeling unbound and unsupported through space when your guiding routines and traditions collapse.
~ Jordan B Peterson