The fact that power plays a role in human motivation does not mean that it plays the only role, or even the primary role ... Beware of single cause i… - Jordan Peterson

Beware of single cause interpretations — and beware the people who purvey them.

Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.

There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.

Here is the problem: Collect a hundred, or a thousand, of those, and your life is miserable and your marriage doomed. Do not pretend you are happy with something if you are not, and if a reasonable solution might, in principle, be negotiated. Have the damn fight. Unpleasant as that might be in the moment, it is one less straw on the camel’s back. And that is particularly true for those daily events that everyone is prone to regard as trivial — even the plates on which you eat your lunch. Life is what repeats, and it is worth getting what repeats right.