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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.

Jordan Peterson

Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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Happiness Success Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Danger Deep Man Thinking Weakness Yourself
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong 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
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Company Improvement Live People Yourself
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy

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