A Quote by Nathaniel Branden

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.

Nathaniel Branden

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Nathaniel Branden
American - Psychologist
April 9, 1930 - December 3, 2014

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