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You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act.

Jordan Peterson

It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Better Protection Yourself
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Lie Silence Voice 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
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
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
Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Death Different Life Right
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
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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Life Philosophy Purpose
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
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
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.
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Act Choice Pay Philosophy Poison Yourself
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
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
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself

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