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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 unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

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  Struggle, Reason And Emotion, Ideas

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• It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiven ess requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

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  Mistake, Self Esteem, Matter

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• A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.

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  Adventure, Giving, Purpose

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Respect starts with ourselves.

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  Self Esteem, Esteem

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• The world belongs to those who persevere.

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  World, Persevere, Embrace Life

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Self Esteem, Self Respect

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.

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  Growth, Progress, Process

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• If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.

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  Believe, Goodness, Efficacy

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

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  Integrity, Self Esteem, Expression

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• When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.

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  Fear, Energy, Needs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure

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  Flower, Self, Love Relationship

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.134, Penguin

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• Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.

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  Ideas, Libertarian, Radical

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• Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.

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  Average, Community, Vision

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• Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

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  Reality, Government, Political

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• If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing to find out?

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  Important Relationships, Might, Tomorrow

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

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• Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

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  Thinking, Rights, Judging

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• Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively.

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  Success, Responsibility, Desire

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• Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realizatio n-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.

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  Fighting, Self, Goal

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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 reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

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  Commitment, Judgement, Feelings

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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• I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.

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  Self Esteem, Opinion, Respecting Others

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• The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

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  Children, Joy, Mind

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• It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind.

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  Animal, Atheism, And Love

  Nathaniel Branden (1985). “Honoring the Self”, Bantam

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• If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

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  Self Esteem, Recovery, Emotional

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

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  Events, Emotion

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect”, p.142, Bantam

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• Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent job, growing and evolving as a person, or guiding a company through the stormy seas of a fiercely competitive global marketplace-whether your goals are material, emotional, or spiritual-the price of success is the same: thinking, learning. To be asleep at the wheel-to rely only on the known, familiar, and automatized-is to invite disaster.

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  Success, Spiritual, Jobs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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