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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.

Jordan Peterson

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
See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Minimalism One Liner See Truth
Untruth corrupts the soul and the state alike, and one form of corruption feeds the other.
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Philosophy Soul
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Choice Deep Pay Yourself
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
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
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
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
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
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
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control 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
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth 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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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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