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A Short Guide to a Happy Life by Quindlen, Anna is a health book available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Short Guide to a Happy Life about?

From the author of Blessings and Still Life with Bread Crumbs, Anna Quindlens 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 wont 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 lifeto 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

Who reads A Short Guide to a Happy Life?

Author

Quindlen, Anna

Publisher

Random House Imprint ; Random House Publishing Group ; Random House, Incorporated Distributor

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375506475

Category

health

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, Social Science

Rating

3.96 / 5 (6,217 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13