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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 Peterson

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
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Choice Deep Pay Yourself
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
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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Future Past Preparation Remember Yourself
You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Equality Hurt Inspirational Protection Transformation Yourself
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
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 society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Born People Reality
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
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin

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.

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