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Jordan Peterson

To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.
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Hell Suffering Yourself
When existence reveals itself as existentially intolerable, thinking collapses in on itself. In such situations – in the depths—it’s noticing, not thinking, that does the trick.
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Existence Thinking Tolerance
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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Carry Character Development Dream Power Struggle
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
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
We are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness.
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Fall Reality World
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
You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.
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Choice Deep Pay Yourself
Experience is the best teacher, and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
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Experience Lesson Teaching Worst
See the truth. Tell the truth.
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Minimalism One Liner See Truth
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
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
Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology.
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Emotion Yourself
If you fulfill your obligations every day you don’t need to worry about the future.
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Future Inspirational Satisfaction Yourself
There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.
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Game Play Success
The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.
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Future Success
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
In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive.
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Thinking Voice
Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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Animal Oneself
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
We may not exactly be God, but we’re not exactly nothing, either.
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Deep God Value Worth
You should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.
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Be Yourself Sacrifice Worth
Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living – and the Ideal shames us all.
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Beautiful Death Philosophy Shame Strength Weakness
So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.
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Knowledge Philosophy Wisdom 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
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
Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
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Person Yourself

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