A Short Guide to a Happy Life

Hardcover, 64 pages

Published Sept. 5, 2002 by Century.

ISBN:
978-0-7126-2009-3
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OCLC Number:
59463270

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"Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won't happen. We have to teach ourselves now to live, really live...to love the journey, not the destination."In this treasure of a book, Anna Quindlen, the bestselling novelist and columnist, reflects on what it takes to "get a life"--to live deeply every day and from your own unique self, rather than merely to exist through your days. "Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us," Quindlen writes, "because unless you know the clock is ticking, it is so easy to waste our days, our lives." Her mother died when Quindlen was nineteen: "It was the dividing line between seeing the world in black and white, and …

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  • Gift books
  • Mind, Body, Spirit
  • Popular psychology
  • Self-Help & Practical Interests
  • Self-Help