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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

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
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
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
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
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
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
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Lie Silence Voice Yourself
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
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
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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People Soul Spiritual
I don’t think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil.
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Development Goodness Myself Thinking
Women select men. That makes them nature, because nature is what selects.
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Deep Man Nature Perspective Woman
It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.
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Harm Mental Oneself Virtue
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person 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
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honor.
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Action Stop Strong Weakness Yourself
Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
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
If society is corrupt, but not the individuals within it, then where did the corruption originate? How is it propagated? It’s a one-sided, deeply ideological theory.
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Born People Reality
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.
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Death Different Life Right
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
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself

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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