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“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Change #Acceptance #Second Chance
“It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding--from others and also from themselves.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Mean #Thinking #Self
“Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Motivational #Self Esteem #Self Respect
“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Inspirational #Positive #Self Esteem
“The greater a childâ€™s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Strong #Children #Self
“How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our life â€“ and a commitment to action. Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: â€˜What's good in my life?â€™ and â€˜What needs to be done?”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Leadership #Motivation #Commitment
“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Inspirational #Confidence #Teacher
“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Depression #Acceptance #Self
“Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Integrity #Rights #People
“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Inspirational #Self Esteem #Caring
“How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Pain #Struggle #Joy
“Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Atheist #Teaching #Practice
“A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Opposites #Self #Bully
“A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Events #Causes #Economy
“The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Self Esteem #Eye #Acceptance
“Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life force-that lift us, energizes us, pulls us back sometimes from the abyss of despair. True spirituality does not exist without love of life.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Love Life #Important #Despair
“The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Self #Achievement #Feelings
“A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Commitment #Expression #Practice
“Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Struggle #Ideas #Two
“A goal without an action plan is a daydream.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Goal #Planning #Action
“The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#World #Stability #Persons
“When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Suicide #Principles #Checks
“To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Confidence #Self Esteem #Essence
“We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Truth #Facts #Dissonance
“Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Live Life #Important #Done
“If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Confidence #Self Esteem #Pride
“There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Confidence #Motivation #Men
“It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Creativity #Space #Imagination
“To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Love Is #Self #Expression
“The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.”
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Love #Soul #Inspire

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