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

Jordan Peterson

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 not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
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
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
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Lie Silence Voice Yourself
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
So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
Aristotle defined virtues simply as the ways of behaving that are most conducive to happiness in life.
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Happiness Life Virtue
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
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Change Greatness World
The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Avoid Existence Right Secret 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
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Choice Deep Pay Yourself
See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Minimalism One Liner See Truth
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
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
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
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
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
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Lose Peace People Story
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth

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