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Always place your becoming above your current being.

Jordan Peterson

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
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Born People Reality
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
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
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.
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Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love 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
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
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand Yourself
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
Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Age Inspirational Skill Success
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage 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
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
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
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
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Compare Inspirational Self Love 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
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Inspirational Success Yourself
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

Always place your becoming above your current being.

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