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The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

Jordan Peterson

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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Lose Peace People Story
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection 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
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
If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
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
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
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
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
That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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People Soul Spiritual
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
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
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Inspirational Success Yourself
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
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
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
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Different Freedom Life Strength Worth
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
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself

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