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Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

Jordan Peterson

Who cares if you are the prime minister of Canada when someone else is the president of the United States?
JORDAN PETERSON

Care Worth 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.
JORDAN PETERSON

Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
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 better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Compare Inspirational Self Love 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
You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Yourself
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
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
In Paradise, everyone speaks the truth. That is what makes it Paradise. Tell the truth. Or, at least, don’t lie.
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Heaven Lie Talk Truth
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Character Lie True Weakness Worth Yourself
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

Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?

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