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It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.

Jordan Peterson

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
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
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
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
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself
We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness 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
When the aristocracy catches a cold, as it is said, the working class dies of pneumonia.
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Death Politics Sick
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
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
Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Inspirational Sacrifice Self Love Worth
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
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
There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Deep Failure People Way Wound
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
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
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
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
It’s the chattering buzz of ideologically possessed demons.
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Hell Ideas
Every bit of learning is a little death. Every bit of new information challenges a previous conception, forcing it to dissolve into chaos before it can be reborn as something better. Sometimes such deaths virtually destroy us.
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Born Death Destruction Force Learning
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
The secret to your existence is right in front of you. It manifests itself as all those things you know you should do but are avoiding.
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Avoid Existence Right Secret Yourself
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Compare Inspirational Self Love Yourself

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