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We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.

Jordan Peterson

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
what can be truly loved about a person is inseparable from their limitations.
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Limitation Love Person True
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
Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a realistic society are those with the least to offer.
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People Reality Willing
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
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
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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Believe Important Responsibility Truth
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand 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
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Compare Inspirational Self Love Yourself
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world – a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one – is to fix yourself.
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Believe Dream World Yourself
A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known – that’s sin.
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Act Failure God Necessary Preparation Sin
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth

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