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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.

Jordan Peterson

There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Different Freedom Life Strength Worth
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Compare Inspirational Self Love Yourself
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking 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
Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Happiness Life Virtue
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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Choice Destiny Mystery Ourselves Potential Reality Transform World
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
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Deep Failure People Way Wound
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.
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Believe Philosophy Thinking Understand Yourself

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