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Paul Wilkes has written an elegant, prescriptive, secular book-a spiritual gem-that reinvents the power of confession for a contemporary audience. Confession is the foundation of religion, the essence of mental health. It is listening to the voice within to follow the path to honest and conscious living. And for thousands of years people have used the power of confession to find their best selves.
Liberating confession from the confessional, The...
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Dream It. List It. Do It! is the ultimate do-it-yourself guide to self-improvement. Drawing from the true stories and experiences of the 1.5 million registered users of 43things.com, a Webby Award–winning social networking site, Dream It. List It. Do It! works on the proven principle that creating a life list, sharing your progress, and checking things off as done gives a person momentum toward a bigger and bolder life. Dream It. List It. Do It!...
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At last: Self-help for procrastinators. (The secret: acceptance!)
Filled with charm, tongue-in-cheek wit, and the insights of a lifelong introspective dawdler, The Art of Procrastination is a philosophical self-help program for every reader who suffers the pangs of being a procrastinator.
John Perry celebrates this nearly universal character flaw by pointing out how often procrastinators are, paradoxically, doers. They may not be accomplishing...
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Meet Blair, viral Instagram sensation and antisocial icon, in this handbook to living your worst life, written and illustrated with laugh-out-loud wit by comedian Mo Welch.
For every brave soul who wants to just say no-no to meeting the gang for drinks, no to wishing a coworker happy birthday (unless there's free cake involved), and no to dating of any kind-here comes Blair, the master of living life in sweatpants and talking only to her cat....
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An essential, obsessive collection of all those wise and quirky sayings we've heard before-plus plenty of essential, obscure ones to discover-now all in one place.
With words of comfort and motivation, humor and warmth, here are thousands of proverbs, precepts, maxims, adages, and axioms-8,789 of them, to be precise-that prove just as true today as the day they were coined. Polished over years of use, there's the unexpected, the playful, even...
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Don't get mad. Get calm.
Ask yourself: "Do I really want to be angry?" Leonard Scheff, a trial attorney who used anger to fuel his courtroom persona, realized the answer had to be no. Anger is toxic. Anger is in the eyes of the beholder.
Using simple Buddhist principles and applying them in a way that is easy for non-Buddhists to understand and put into practice, Scheff and Susan Edmiston have created an interactive book that helps readers...
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The phenomenon returns! Originally published in 1987, The Book of Questions, a New York Times bestseller, has been completely revised and updated to incorporate the myriad cultural shifts and hot-button issues of the past twenty-five years, making it current and even more appealing.
This is a book for personal growth, a tool for deepening relationships, a lively conversation starter for the family dinner table, a fun way to pass the time in the...
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THE STRUGGLE IS REAL
Seriously, can you not though? Life is hard, everyone sucks, blah blah blah. Swearing (and drinking) helps, and so does this book, a charming collection of illustrations that actually say what most of us think every day-so freaking over it.
An anti-inspiration book that celebrates what we all know, deep in our hearts: Everything is definitely not going to be OK. Snarky sayings are beautifully illustrated to capture those...
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Imagine a product that increases alertness, boosts creativity, reduces stress, improves perception, stamina, motor skills, and accuracy, enhances your sex life, helps you make better decisions, keeps you looking younger, aids in weight loss, reduces the risk of heart attack, elevates your mood, and strengthens memory. Now imagine that this product is nontoxic, has no dangerous side effects, and, best of all, is absolutely free.
This miracle drug...
10) The Wish List
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The Wish List is a quirky little gift book that sounds an irresistible call to get out there and start living. In the same chunky format as the authorfs bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List presents a compulsively readable list of unexpected goals. There are wishes large--retrace Odysseus' route around the Mediterranean--and wishes small--find a genuine arrowhead. There are artistic wishes--write a sonnet. Athletic wishes--learn...
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A COMPENDIUM OF WISDOM
"Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it." – GEORGE CARLIN
When change comes we have two options: Resist it, and lose. Or go with the flow, and grow. Which means there's really just one option-embracing change is the only path to living your true life. So laugh at it, with George Carlin. Celebrate it, like Patti Smith and David Bowie. Above all, grow with it, like Maya Angelou, Stephen Hawking,...
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The definitive exercise book that the one-million-plus readers of the Younger Next Year® series have been waiting for-and the exercise book that takes the intimidation out of starting a workout routine. Based on the science that shows how we can turn back our biological clocks by a combination of aerobics and strength fitness, it's a guide that will show every reader how to live with newfound vibrancy, strength, endurance, confidence, and joy-and...
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Seeing, really seeing, is like meditation. In a world filled with distraction, seeing mindfully is a way to pay attention, to hit pause and find calm by focusing on what's directly in front of us. See Your Way to Mindfulness is a gift book of inspiration and instruction to help readers open their eyes-and their "I's." Written by David Schiller, author of the national bestseller The Little Zen Companion, it's a collection of quotes, prompts, exercises,...
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Despite what you see on movies and TV, Americans have less sex than people in any other country. One in three women, of all ages, reports a lack of interest in sex, and more than 40 million Americans in relationships are having no sex at all. But rather than feeling complacent about it, most couples would like to have that interest back. The desire for desire is a feeling few women forget-or abandon.
Combining Eastern wisdom and techniques with...
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Help others. Help yourself. Be a better person, and make the world a better place. Using the wisdom of the East to instruct and inspire, Instant Karma is a universe of things a reader can do, right now, to accumulate good karma. And, like pennies going into a piggy bank, each is a seemingly little thing-but feed the bank day after day and feel it grow richer and happier.
Created by Barbara Ann Kipfer, the author whose books-including 14,000 Things...
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Wake up and dream.
Imagine experiencing all the things that happen in dreams, but with one extraordinary difference: You are "lucid"––consciously, joyously in control. Not just an adventure (yes, you can fly), a lucid dream is a time ripe for creative thinking, healing, inspiration, and self-knowledge.
This lively dream guide shows step-by-step how to become lucid, and then what to do once awake in the dream world. Here's how to...
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A book of inspirational quotations, Nothing Is Worth More Than This Day presents hundreds of reminders from some of the smartest people who ever lived-from Dr. Seuss to Erma Bombeck, Thich Nhat Hanh to Lena Dunham-that happiness is everywhere and the glass is half-full. It's the perfect gift of optimism, for good times and not-so-good times. Kathryn and Ross Petras, brother and sister, are great curators of quotes whose books and calendars have 5...
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An inspiring visual guide to a richer life.
"If there's a thinker to steal from, it's Jessica Hagy."-Austin Kleon, author of Steal Like an Artist and Newspaper Blackout
How to Be Interesting is passionate, positive, down-to-earth, and irrepressibly upbeat, combining fresh and pithy life lessons, often just a sentence or two, with deceptively simple diagrams and graphs. Each of the book's more than 100 spreads will nudge readers a little...
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A gift that celebrates being yourself, in your own unique way.
Do you ever feel different? A little weird, a little wacky? It's time to own it, because, as Meryl Streep proclaimed, "what makes you different or weird, that's your strength." In this inspiring collection, singers, poets, actors, activists, comedians, designers, athletes, and philosophers share wise and pithy reflections on what it's like to march to the beat of a different drummer....
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Welcome to the club that no one ever wants to join but so many of us end up needing. We're so sorry that you're here.
Based on her own experience with grief-the author's partner died when both were in their late twenties-and those of other Grief Club members, Janine Kwoh uses brief writings, illustrations, and creative diagrams to explore the wide range of emotions and experiences that grief can encompass. For anyone who has lost a loved one or who...
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