If you can't understand why someone is doing something, look at the consequences of their actions, whatever they might be, and then infer the motivations from their consequences.

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Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell. — Amal Clooney

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Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday. - Jordan Peterson

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You don’t actually have to write anything until you’ve thought it out. This is an enormous relief, and you can sit there searching for the point at which the story becomes a toboggan and starts to slide. - Marie de Nervaud

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The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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If you own this story you get to write the ending. — Brené Brown

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You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.― Maya Angelou

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And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of. ― Jordan B. Peterson

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Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story. ― François Lelord

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