12 Rules for Life

Highlights

• People who live by the same code are rendered mutually predictable to one another.
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• We must have the meaning inherent in a profound system of value or the horror of existence rapidly becomes paramount.
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• We are thus eternally caught between the most diamantine rock and the hardest of places: loss of group-centred belief renders life chaotic, miserable, intolerable; presence of group-centred belief makes conflict with other groups inevitable.
• “In my kingdom,” as the Red Queen tells Alice in Wonderland, “you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.” No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.
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• There is very little difference between the capacity for mayhem and destruction, integrated, and strength of character. This is one of the most difficult lessons of life.
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• To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open.
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