Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Seminal book by Nathaniel Branden.

• On purpose - "“Purposes unrelated to a plan of action do not get realized. They exist as

frustrated yearnings."

• "Apart from disturbance whose roots are biological, I cannot think of a single

psychological problem—from anxiety and depression, to underachievement at school or at work, to fear of intimacy, happiness, or success, to alcohol or drug abuse, to spouse battering or child molestation, to co-dependency and sexual disorders, to passivity and chronic aimlessness, to suicide and crimes of violence—that is not traceable, at least in part, to the problem of deficient self-esteem. Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.” ~ Nathaniel Branden from The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem