A Short Guide to a Happy Life

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"Life is made of moments, small pieces ofglittering mica in a longstretch ofgray cement. 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 how 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 throughyour 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.... Tovább

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"Life is made of moments, small pieces ofglittering mica in a longstretch ofgray cement. 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 how 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 throughyour 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.
About the Atjthor Anna Quindlen is the author of three bestselling novels, Object Lessons, One True Thing, and Black andBlue. Her New York Times column "Public and Priváté" won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992, and a selection of those columns was published as Thinking Out Loud. She is alsó the author of a collection of her 'Life in the 3° s columns, Living Out Loud; a book for the Library of Contemporary Thought, How Reading Changed My Life; and two children's books, The 7ree That Game to Stay and Happily Ever After. She is currently a columnist for Newsweek and resides with her husband and children in New York City. Vissza