"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 our own company." ~Nathaniel Branden
"In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn." ~Nathaniel Branden
"Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss" ~Nathaniel Branden
"Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life." ~Nathaniel Branden
“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”~Nathaniel Branden
"Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual’s worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements—in ourselves and others—and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve." ~Nathaniel Branden
"Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life." ~Nathaniel Branden
"There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity." ~Nathaniel Branden
"To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It's not yet knowledge; it's an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more." ~Nathaniel Branden
"When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering." ~Nathaniel Branden
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