" School never ends. The classroom is everywhere "

• Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium.• “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other
 plans.”
•The only thing you have that nobody else has is control of your life. Get a real life rather than frantically chasing the next level of success.• Your mind, your day, your heart, your spirit. You are the only one in control of that.•The hardest thing of all is to learn to love the journey, not the destination.

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• “Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.”• “Show up. Listen. Try to laugh.• “You cannot be really good at your work if your work is all you are.”• “Get a life, a real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion.”•“Turn off your cell phone. Keep still. Be present.”•“Get a life in which you are generous.”

Live Life

" This is not a dress rehearsal. Today is the only guarantee you get "

" All of us want to do well, but if we do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough"

From the New York Times bestselling author of Alternate Side, Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life makes a perfect gift for 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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From the New York Times bestselling author of Alternate Side, Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life makes a perfect gift for 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.

A Short Guide to a Happy Life

ANNA QUINDLEN

Short Guide

Live Life

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