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Feelings Quotes by Nathaniel Branden

9 Feelings quotes by Nathaniel Branden

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If you’re curious about how Branden frames inner experience, this brief set gives a taste of his voice. Though modest in size, the quotes capture his focus on self‑esteem and emotional insight, making a handy starter point for anyone exploring his ideas.

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The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success,…

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To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

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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,…

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Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and…

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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender…

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You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to…

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The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to…

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Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects…

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If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow…

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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…

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Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch…

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Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

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“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…

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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.…

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It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

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