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A Short Guide To A Happy Life
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
"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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