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Here are several verified quotes from **Jordan B. Peterson** on life and wisdom, drawn from his books, lectures, and interviews:
1. **”Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”**
\*Source: *12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos* (2018)
A reflection on personal growth and the dangers of envy.
2. **”If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.”**
\*Source: *12 Rules for Life*
An encouragement to find stability and meaning through daily responsibility.
3. **”Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.”**
\*Source: *12 Rules for Life*
A reminder to practice self-care and self-respect.
4. **”Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.”**
\*Source: Lecture series, University of Toronto (2017)
About gratitude and realistic self-assessment.
5. **”The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”**
\*Source: Interview with *Daily Wire*, 2018
His philosophy of meaning through responsibility and contribution.
6. **”You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always equal or more than the things that frighten you.”**
\*Source: Lecture series
A call to courage and personal development.
7. **”It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life.”**
\*Source: *12 Rules for Life*
On the deep connection between responsibility and meaningful living.
8. **”The truth is something that burns. It burns off deadwood. And people don’t like having the deadwood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent deadwood.”**
\*Source: Lecture, *Personality and Its Transformations*
A provocative statement about the painful but necessary role of truth.
If you want, I can also provide some deeper themes and core principles that underlie Peterson’s philosophy on life and wisdom — would you like me to?