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The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

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Nathaniel Branden
Age: 84 †
Born: 1930
Born: April 9
Died: 2014
Died: December 3
Academic
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Single
Self
Important
Life
Factor
Fulfilling
Factors
Reputation
Esteem

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High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
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If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity you lack the will to persevere.
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The world belongs to those who persevere.
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The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.
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Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.
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Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
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The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'
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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.
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Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.
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In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.
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If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
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To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.
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It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.
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If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.
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A goal without an action plan is a daydream.
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A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
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Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.
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You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.
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