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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

Jordan Peterson

Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Enough Important Learning Secure
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
To act is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
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Act Life Live Possible Value
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Lie Silence Voice Yourself
When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Existence Thinking Tolerance
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Care Worth Yourself
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Avoid Existence Right Secret Yourself
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay

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