AtomicQuote

Nathaniel Branden Quote

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

Nathaniel Branden

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

Tags: hide, integrity, mask, psychology, self esteem

Related Quotes

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling

Munia Khan

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling

Tags: beguile, beguiling, black, cannot, cloud, clouds, cloudy, dark, darkness, darkness and light

A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep blue foots...

Oksana Rus

A silent velvet footstep filled me, unwelcome yet so needed. You finally found my hidden shore with grains of time and ocean of the most secret secrets, violet and red; left a trail of deep blue foots...

Tags: art, artist, beach, blue, deep blue, erase, escape, face, finally, footstep

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is po...

Robin Hobb

What is a secret? It is much more than knowledge shared with only a few, or perhaps only one another. It is power. It is a bond. It is a sign of deep trust, or the darkest threat possible. There is po...

Tags: betray, collect, cultivate, decide, discern, employ, hide, knowledge, learn, path

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Jim Carrey

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Tags: 2014, 7 7, 77, acceptance, actor, actors, address, allow, be you, be yourself

Listen to the sadness,the echoes in my mind,the place where I usually hide,but now I cannot find.Why had it happened?What had I done?Where was I going?Now I'm on the run.Hiding from the echoes,the pou...

Anthony T. Hincks

Listen to the sadness,the echoes in my mind,the place where I usually hide,but now I cannot find.Why had it happened?What had I done?Where was I going?Now I'm on the run.Hiding from the echoes,the pou...

Tags: death, done, ears, echo, echoes, fear, going, happened, hide, life

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

Tags: alone, bad feelings, cancer, celebrity, chronic, consequences, desire, eye, face, fear

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

Tags: avoid, avoidance, denial, deny, destination, elude, escape, fear, fearful, flee

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.

Tags: comfort, comfortable, complacent, escape, escaping, fear, fearful, fearing, goal, hide

Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, a...

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, a...

Tags: apathetic, apathy, fact, fear, helpless, helplessness, hidden, hide, hiding, lie

She walked empty handed in the street, where everyone sold their dreams. Ignoring the cold stares of the demon, which guarded it and always craved for the taste of the things every soul hid. At the de...

Akshay Vasu

She walked empty handed in the street, where everyone sold their dreams. Ignoring the cold stares of the demon, which guarded it and always craved for the taste of the things every soul hid. At the de...

Tags: blind, crave, demon, destroy, dreams, empty, end, free, guard, hide
About Nathaniel Branden

Nathaniel Branden (born Nathan Blumenthal; April 9, 1930 – December 3, 2014) was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and romantic partner of Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent role in the 1960s in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Rand and Branden split acrimoniously in 1968, after which Branden focused on developing his own psychological theories and modes of therapy.