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Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.

Jordan Peterson

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
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
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
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
Consciousness is a mystery that faces the mystery of potential and transforms it into actuality. We do that with every choice we make. Our choices determine the destiny of the world. By making a choice, you alter the structure of reality.
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Choice Destiny Mystery Ourselves Potential Reality Transform World
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
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
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
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
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
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Hurt Myself One Liner
It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Company Improvement Live People 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
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
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
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
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
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
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
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love

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