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Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

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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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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Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness.
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Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.
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No one is coming to save you.
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For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to help-out of impatience or solicitude-they sabotage important learning. Among other things, the child is unlikely to discover the advantages of perseverance and self-discipline.
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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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The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.
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Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.
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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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An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.
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Feel deeply to think clearly.
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Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
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Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence.
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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 we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
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A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.
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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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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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