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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.

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
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
If a child has not been taught to behave properly by the age of four, it will forever be difficult for him or her to make friends.
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Children Difficult Forever Friendship Learning
The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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Life Philosophy Purpose
That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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One Liner Poetry
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
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
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
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
You should not overlook the guidelines of your culture. Life is short, and you don’t have time to figure everything out on your own. The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.
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Death Deep Life Time Wisdom
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need 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
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
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

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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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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