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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

Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.
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Responsible Self Love Yourself
Alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.
JORDAN PETERSON

Deep Freedom Philosophy Reality Search
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
That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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One Liner Poetry
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
Life is indistinguishable from effortful maintenance.
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Different Effort Life
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth 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
You cannot be protected from the things that frighten you and hurt you, but if you identify with the part of your being that is responsible for transformation, then you are always the equal, or more than the equal of the things that frighten you.
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Equality Hurt Inspirational Protection Transformation 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
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
That the soul of the individual eternally hungers for the heroism of genuine being.
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People Soul Spiritual
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
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
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Direction World
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst

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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