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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.

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
Thought
Trust
Assets
Matter
Respect
Limit
Self
Wants
Possess
Feel
Challenges
Esteem
Untitled
Feels
Face
Basic
Assertive
Needs
Happiness
Lack
Deficiency
Love
Faces
Confidence
Unworthy
Fear
Limits
Inadequate

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A goal without an action plan is a daydream.
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No one is coming to save you.
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In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.
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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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Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
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If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity you lack the will to persevere.
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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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Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.
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A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
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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 highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'
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The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.
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Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.
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Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.
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