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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
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If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.
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... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend.... Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'
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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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If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.
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Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
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Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.
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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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A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.
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I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.
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Feel deeply to think clearly.
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Respect starts with ourselves.
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If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
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The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to prove ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.
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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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It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence at living.
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Self-esteem is not a luxury it is a profound spiritual need.
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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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Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.
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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.
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A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
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