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Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.
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
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The world belongs to those who persevere.
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Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
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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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We tend to feel most comfortable, most at home, with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.
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No one is coming to save you.
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Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.
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The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.
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Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.
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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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Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
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A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
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