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“[Truth] will keep your soul from withering and dying while you encounter the inevitable tragedy of life. It will help you avoid the terrible desire to seek vengeance for that tragedy-part of the terrible sin of Being, which everything must bear gracefully, just so it can exist.”

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Book:12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human.”

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Book:Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

“We become stronger by voluntarily facing what impedes our necessary progress.”

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Book:Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

“How do you know who you are? After all, you are complex beyond your own understanding; more complex than anything else that exists, excepting other people; complex beyond belief.”

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Book:Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

“There's almost nothing better than character development. And aiming at having a good character is the highest aim, and it's the aim that will provide the most meaning in your life.”

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“Despite the fact that the world is a very dark place, and that each of us has our black elements of soul, we see in each other a unique blend of actuality and possibility that is a kind of miracle: one that can manifest itself, truly, in the world, in the relationships we have that are grounded in trust and love.”

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Book:Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

“A certain amount of creativity and rebellion must be tolerated - or welcomed, depending on your point of view - to maintain the process of regeneration. Every rule was once a creative act, breaking other rules.”

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Book:Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life

“Hating life, despising life—even for the genuine pain that life inflicts—merely serves to make life itself worse, unbearably worse. There is no genuine protest in that. There is no goodness in that, only the desire to produce suffering, for the sake of suffering. That is the very essence of evil. People who come to that kind of thinking are one step from total mayhem.”

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Book:12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Source: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos