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There’s some real utility in gratitude. It’s also good protection against the dangers of victimhood and resentment.

Jordan Peterson

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

Control 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
What you aim at determines what you see.
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One Liner Perspective See Yourself
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
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
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
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
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
Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned.
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Enough Important Learning Secure
Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Change Greatness World
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Compare Inspirational Self Love Yourself
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
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
Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Direction Inspirational Opportunity Power Transformation
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
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Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search

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