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It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.

Jordan Peterson

There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Game Play Success
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
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
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
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
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
Nietzsche said that a man’s worth was determined by how much truth he could tolerate.
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Man Tolerance Truth Worth
The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.
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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
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
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage 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
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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Believe Important Responsibility Truth
You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Equality Hurt Inspirational Protection Transformation Yourself

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