Acceptance Quote by Nathaniel Branden Download Open image “Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.” — Nathaniel Branden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acceptance Compassion Depression Identity Refusal Self Self acceptance Self esteem
“Self-acceptance always precedes genuine self-surrender and self-transformation.” — David G. Benner Copy Share Image
I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Self-love is the side-effect of self-acceptance. Accept who you are and what is happening in your world and love naturally begins to flow back… — Kelly Martin Copy Share Image
Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn't self-love. It's self destruction. — Laci Green Copy Share Image
“But if you can’t love your-self, you can never love others. And if you never overcome your lack of self- love, you will carry… — Ken Freeman Copy Share Image
Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Everything begins with accepting yourself. Without self-acceptance, you can't accomplish anything. — Spido Copy Share Image
“Self-acceptance is a way of viewing oneself compassionately, without condemnation or justification. It is a starting point in life which makes other things possible.… — Don Richard Riso Copy Share Image
“Self-love can only be achieved by living an authentic life. It’s not possible to truly love and accept yourself when you are not being… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it… — Camryn Manheim 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
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude. — Ronald Blythe Copy Share Image
“Loving someone who does not love you back hurts, alot, i know. It is liking seeing these pair of shoes at the retail store… — Nomthandazo Tsembeni Copy Share Image
Take responsibily for your past, the bad memories of poor decisions you took were your choices once, and you liked them for the moment… — Aruho Marvin Copy Share Image
Let us learn to accept and appreciate things now, and we'll find more happiness in every moment we live. Happiness comes when we stop… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Accepting the challenges in life makes it interesting and overcoming them makes it eloquent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance. — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
