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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.

Jordan Peterson

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Action Stop Strong Weakness Yourself
Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
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Care Worth Yourself
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
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See 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
It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.
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Better Protection Yourself
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
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Greatness Reality Survive
One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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Children Family Necessary Problem Rich
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
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 took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you’re going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.
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Gratitude History Reason World Yourself
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
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
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself

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