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The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.

Jordan Peterson

If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
Always place your becoming above your current being.
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Improvement Inspirational Place Self Love
Truth reduces the terrible complexity of a man to the simplicity of his word.
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Man Simplicity Truth Word
There’s a worthy and noble ambition: strength in the face of adversity. That is very different from the wish for a life free of trouble.
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Different Freedom Life Strength Worth
Dare, instead, to be dangerous. Dare to be truthful. Dare to articulate yourself, and express (or at least become aware of) what would really justify your life.
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Danger Life Truth Yourself
Begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.
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Beginning Responsible 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
There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Game Play Success
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
People who know what to expect from one another can act together to tame the world.
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Expectation People Togetherness World
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
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
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 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
True thinking is rare – just like true listening.
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Deep One Liner Thinking True
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
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Compare Inspirational Self Love Yourself
It is better, proverbially, to rule your own spirit than to rule a city.
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Control Yourself
Much of happiness is hope, no matter how deep the underworld in which that hope was conceived.
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Happiness Hope Philosophy
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
I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Hurt Myself One Liner
It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.
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Care Protection Yourself
Old age and treachery can always overcome youth and skill.
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Age Inspirational Skill Success
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 are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Inspirational Success Yourself
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
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
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

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