Loving consciously does not mean subjecting your relationship to endless analysis. It means something much simpler: paying attention. Noticing. This requires presence. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If you do not feel deserving of happiness, consciously or subconsciously, or if you have accepted the idea that happiness is somehow… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“I think that we approach the problem of romantic love all wrong when we start with the questions: why do so many… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each… — 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
For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs-… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Moved by a passion they do not understand for a goal they seldom reach, men and women are haunted by the vision… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in… — 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 Image
A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
