Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived. - Jordan Peterson

When someone claims to be acting from the highest principles, for the good of others, there is no reason to assume that the person’s motives are genuine. People motivated to make things better usually aren’t concerned with changing other people — or, if they are, they take responsibility for making the same changes to themselves (and first).

What is the moral of the story? Make yourself colorful, stand out, and the lions will take you down. And the lions are always there.

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future. Then you disturb others, in the depths of their souls, where they understand that their cynicism and immobility are unjustifiable. You play Abel to their Cain.