For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
