269 Quotes by Nathaniel Branden

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

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.

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

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

When people are not accepting toward themselves they are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism ...

Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.