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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.

Jordan Peterson

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
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
If you betray yourself, if you say untrue things, if you act out a lie, you weaken your character.
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Character Lie True Weakness Worth Yourself
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking 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
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
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
I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Hurt Myself One Liner
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
But we can aim too high. Or too low. Or too chaotically. So we fail and live in disappointment, even when we appear to others to be living well.
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Dream Failure Live Philosophy
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
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love 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

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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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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