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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
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Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
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Experience
Self
Life
Requirements
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Esteem
Within
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Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
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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.
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Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.
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The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.
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Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility that refuses to be extinguished.
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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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Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.
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The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.
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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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For I to become we and yet remain I, is one of the great challenges of marriage.
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Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
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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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Set goals that don't feel all that easy, that challenge you, stimulate you, and give you a chance to stretch and push yourself. That is where the power of growth lies.
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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.
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An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.
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Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
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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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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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Respect starts with ourselves.
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