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Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

Jordan Peterson

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Inspirational Sacrifice Self Love Worth
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
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
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
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
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
I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Development Goodness Myself Thinking
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
You remember the past not so that it is “accurately recorded,” to say it again, but so that you are prepared for the future.
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Future Past Preparation Remember Yourself
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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Danger Life Truth Yourself
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
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible Yourself

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

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