Nathaniel Branden Quotes

Every person can reach a full life.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

We want you to find that thing that will make your life better.

The purpose of life is to explore one's own life to its fullest, to explore all dimensions.

Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.

There's the gift, there's the spirit, and there's the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

You are much closer than you think to creating a life you adore.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

I hope you live a life you're proud of.

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?