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If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences – and infer the motivation.

Jordan Peterson

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
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.
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Believe Life Need Yourself
We require routine and tradition. That’s order. Order can become excessive, and that’s not good, but chaos can swamp us, so we drown – and that is also not good. We need to stay on the straight and narrow path.
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Goodness Path Philosophy Stay
If you don’t say what you think then you kill your unborn self.
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Born Kill Thinking Yourself
I’m not hurt. I’m appalled.
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Hurt Myself One Liner
There are so many ways that things can fall apart, or fail to work altogether, and it is always wounded people who are holding it together.
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Deep Failure People Way Wound
And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
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Danger Deep Man Thinking Weakness Yourself
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
Much of happiness is hope.
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Happiness Hope One Liner
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
Worthlessness is the default condition.
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Condition Worth
That’s poetic in its malevolence.
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One Liner Poetry
There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Game Play Success
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’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
Perhaps you are overvaluing what you don’t have and undervaluing what you do.
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Value Worth Yourself
When you have something to say, silence is a lie.
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Lie Silence Voice Yourself
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
The purpose of life, as far as I can tell, is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.
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Life Philosophy Purpose
You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction.
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Direction Inspirational Life Yourself
Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.
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Change Greatness World
If you are not willing to be a fool, you can’t become a master.
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Inspirational Success Yourself
We believe that in reducing the scope and importance of our errors, we are properly humble; in truth, we are merely unwilling to bear the weight of our true responsibility.
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Believe Important Responsibility Truth
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
Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.
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Destruction Power Sin
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities.
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Direction Inspirational Opportunity Power Transformation

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