The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.
Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work. - Nathaniel Branden
Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.
- Nathaniel Branden
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive. - Nathaniel Branden
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.
If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs or wants; no one is here on eart… - Nathaniel Branden
If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs or wants; no one is here on eart…
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. - Nathaniel Branden
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons. - Nathaniel Branden
The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.
It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself. - Nathaniel Branden
It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. - Nathaniel Branden
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Feel deeply to think clearly. - Nathaniel Branden
Feel deeply to think clearly.
To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem. - Nathaniel Branden
To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.
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