Anna Quindlen
Hardcover | Pages: 50 pages Rating: 3.95 | 7696 Users | 750 Reviews
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| Original Title: | A Short Guide to a Happy Life |
| ISBN: | 0375504613 (ISBN13: 9780375504617) |
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From the author of Blessings and Still Life with Bread Crumbs, Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life is the perfect gift for graduation, or any occasion.“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 in Technicolor. The lights came on for the darkest possible reason. . . . I learned something enduring, in a very short period of time, about life. And that was that it was glorious, and that you had no business taking it for granted.” But how to live from that perspective, to fully engage in our days? In A Short Guide to a Happy Life, Quindlen guides us with an understanding that comes from knowing how to see the view, the richness in living.
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| Title | : | A Short Guide to a Happy Life |
| Author | : | Anna Quindlen |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 50 pages |
| Published | : | October 31st 2000 by Random House |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Self Help. Inspirational. Autobiography. Memoir. Writing. Essays. Philosophy |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 7696 Users | 750 ReviewsWeigh Up Regarding Books A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Anna Quindlen is one of my favorite author's and she has kept her position with this story story. She won me over my Junior year of high school in AP Lit when we read How Reading Changed My Life and it was true, reading had changed my life. In this book she takes the time out to explain how we; the earth, as a whole forget how to live in the moment. We're always striving for the next best thing, or something else that will make us more happy than what we already have, when in reality we couldNothing terribly new if you are used to thinking purposefully about not taking life for granted, but a good reminder from a good writer, nonetheless.
Uplifting, inspirational....a vitamin B12 shot for spirit!
Joaquin wrote: "Nobody, and especially not Filipinos, enjoys traffic. Good review as always. Full of wisdom."Thank you, sir. :)
This little book, only 50 pages long, deserves a place on your permanent keepsake bookshelf, along side of such self-help gems as William Bennetts The Virtues, Dale Carnegies How to Win Friends, Russell Conwells Acres of Diamonds, Og Mandinos The Greatest Salesman in the World, Dr. Norman Vincent Peales The Power of Positive Thinking and The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale.Goodreads member John of Canada said, Nothing really hew here but that doesnt diminish its value. Simple messages are
I don't read or browse through self-help books much. You get to a certain age, however (42, in my case) and, if life deals you a bad hand (over and over...and over again), the questions grow and the answers become elusive or impossible to grasp.Some on-line article or magazine mentioned this little book--talk about drifting through a day! I can't recall where I read about this. I got it from the library. Whoever wrote about it was right, it takes less than fifteen minutes to read. And while it's
Would appreciate your review of my book which can be downloaded at www.HappyGuidetoaShortLife.com it was written as a response to Anna Quindlens
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