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Jordan Peterson

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
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
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
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
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
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search
But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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Dream Failure Live Philosophy
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
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
Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Enough Important Learning Secure
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
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
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
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life

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