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Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

Nathaniel Branden

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Nathaniel Branden
Age: 84 †
Born: 1930
Born: April 9
Died: 2014
Died: December 3
Academic
Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Esteem
Within
Powerful
Force
Experience
Self
Requirements
Life
Appropriate

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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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As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.
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The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.
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If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.
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Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
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It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
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Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
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If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.
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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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A goal without an action plan is a daydream.
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What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
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Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness.
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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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The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.
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Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
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A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.
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To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.
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Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.
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No one is coming to save you.
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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.
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