Nathaniel Branden Quotes about Acceptance

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

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

Nathaniel Branden

Acceptance, People, Obsessed

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Nathaniel Branden

Change, Acceptance, Second Chance

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

Nathaniel Branden

Depression, Self Esteem, Acceptance

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

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.

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Self Esteem, Eye, Acceptance

Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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

Self Esteem, Fall, Acceptance

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

Nathaniel Branden

Mean, Acceptance, Doe

Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.

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Block, Acceptance, Growth

Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.145, Simon and Schuster