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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.

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.
JORDAN PETERSON

Deserve Destiny Important People Respect Worth Yourself
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
That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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People Soul Spiritual
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
People organize their brains with conversation. If they don’t have anyone to tell their story to, they lose their minds. Like hoarders, they cannot unclutter themselves.
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Lose Peace People Story
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
Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage.
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Dream Light Philosophy Reason Travel
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’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.
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Company Improvement Live People Yourself
Ideologies are substitutes for true knowledge, and ideologues are always dangerous when they come to power, because a simple-minded I-know-it-all approach is no match for the complexity of existence.
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Danger Existence Ideas Knowledge Mindset Power True
That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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One Liner Poetry
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
You’re not perfect just the way you are. You could be better!
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Improvement Perfection Savage Yourself
Question for parents: do you want to make your children safe, or strong?
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Children Safety Strong Yourself
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
If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.
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Motivational Understand 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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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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