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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.

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
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Inspirational Sacrifice Self Love Worth
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
One of the problems with being relatively wealthy if you are a parent is that you cannot provide your children with necessity.
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Children Family Necessary Problem Rich
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
So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom Yourself
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
It’s a luxury to pursue what makes you happy; it’s a moral obligation to pursue what you find meaningful.
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Happiness Success Yourself
Don’t use language instrumentally.
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Language One Liner
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
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand 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
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

The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.

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The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. The status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.

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