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You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.

Jordan Peterson

There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.
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Danger Goodness Gratitude Protection Reality Victim
So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
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
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
Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Action Stop Strong Weakness Yourself
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.
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Act Believe Thinking Yourself
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible Yourself
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Direction World
People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Lose Peace People Story
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Children Difficult Forever Friendship Learning
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World

You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.

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