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Author : William Hurrell Mallock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Is Life Worth Living? written by William Hurrell Mallock and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Is Life Worth Living? written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fulton John Sheen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Life is Worth Living written by Fulton John Sheen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Delaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735405209
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book A Life Worth Living written by Kevin Delaney and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-fiction, self-help, inspirational. There's the life you hoped for, and the life you are living. Rarely are the two the same. So few of us are passionate about the life we are living. But after waking from a coma, having come so close to dying, Kevin Delaney determined he would not settle for a half-lived life. This book will inspire you, challenge you, and most of all, help you find your purpose and dare to live the life you've imagined. Through his own inspiring story and the stories of others, A Life Worth Living will move you toward the life you want to live. It will help you find passion and purpose and close the gap between the life you have and the life you want. If you want to live an extraordinary life, one that makes a difference, a life you don't regret, read A Life Worth Living.
Author : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198039273
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (392 download)
Download or read book A Life Worth Living written by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life Worth Living brings together the latest thought on Positive Psychology from an international cast of scholars. It includes historical, philosophical, and empirical reviews of what psychologists have found to matter for personal happiness and well-being. The contributions to this volume agree on priciples of optimal development that start from purely material and selfish concerns, but then lead to ever broader circles of responsibility embracing the goals of others and the well-being of the environment; on the importance of spirituality; on the development of strengths specific to the individual. Rather than material success, popularity, or power, the investigations reported in this volume suggest that personally constructed goals, intrinsic motivation, and a sense of autonomy are much more important. The chapters indicate that hardship and suffering do not necessarily make us unhappy, and they suggest therapeutical implications for improving the quality of life. Specific topics covered include the formation of optimal childhood values and habits as well as a new perspective on aging. This volume provides a powerful counterpoint to a mistakenly reductionist psychology. They show that subjective experience can be studied scientifically and measured accurately. They highlight the potentiality for autonomy and freedom that is among the most precious elements of the human condition. MOreover, they make a convincing case for the importance of subjective phenomena, which often affect happiness more than external, material conditions. After long decades during which psychologists seemed to have forgotten that misery is not the only option, the blossoming of Positive Psychology promises a better understanding of what a vigorous, meaningful life may consist of.
Author : Robert Zaretsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728378
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book A Life Worth Living written by Robert Zaretsky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo. For Camus, rebellion against injustice is the human condition.
Author : Carol Lloyd
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062262688
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Creating a Life Worth Living written by Carol Lloyd and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming is easy. Making it happen is hard. With a fresh perspective, Carol Lloyd motivates the person searching for two things: the creative life and a life of sanity, happiness and financial solvency. Creating a Life Worth Living is for the hundreds of thousands of people who bought Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way, but who are looking for more down-to-earth solutions and concrete tasks for achieving their goals. Creating a Life Worth Living helps the reader search memory for inspiration, understand his or her individual artistic profile, explore possible futures, design a daily process and build a structure of support. Each of the 12 chapters, such as "The Drudge We Do For Dollars" and "Excavating the Future," contains specific exercises and daily tasks that help readers to clarify their desires and create a tangible plan of action for realizing dreams. The book also provides inspiring anecdotes and interviews with people who have succeeded in their chosen fields, such as performance artist Anna Devere Smith, writer Sally Tisdale and filmmaker R. J. Cutler. The pursuit of one's dreams is one of the great joys in life but also one of the most terrifying. Creating a Life Worth Living is an invaluable road map for this journey, guiding readers as they take the first tentative steps that are necessary before they can fly.
Author : Gordon Mathews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520916470
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (164 download)
Download or read book What Makes Life Worth Living? written by Gordon Mathews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-04-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan. In the course of exploring how people from these two cultures find meaning in their daily lives, he illuminates a vast and intriguing range of ideas about work and love, religion, creativity, and self-realization. Mathews explores these topics by means of the Japanese term ikigai, "that which most makes one's life seem worth living." American English has no equivalent, but ikigai applies not only to Japanese lives but to American lives as well. Ikigai is what, day after day and year after year, each of us most essentially lives for. Through the life stories of those he interviews, Mathews analyzes the ways Japanese and American lives have been affected by social roles and cultural vocabularies. As we approach the end of the century, the author's investigation into how the inhabitants of the world's two largest economic superpowers make sense of their lives brings a vital new understanding to our skeptical age.
Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 1567184855
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Journey of Souls written by Michael Newton and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When reincarnating, do we have a short spell in a disembodied phase? Hypnosis reveals what goes on.
Author : Marsha M. Linehan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812984994
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Building a Life Worth Living written by Marsha M. Linehan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others. “This book is a victory on both sides of the page.”—Gloria Steinem “Are you one of us?” a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy. “Because if you were, it would give all of us so much hope.” Over the years, DBT had saved the lives of countless people fighting depression and suicidal thoughts, but Linehan had never revealed that her pioneering work was inspired by her own desperate struggles as a young woman. Only when she received this question did she finally decide to tell her story. In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of emotional hell, she would try to find a way to help others get out of hell too, and to build a life worth living. She went on to put herself through night school and college, living at a YWCA and often scraping together spare change to buy food. She went on to get her PhD in psychology, specializing in behavior therapy. In the 1980s, she achieved a breakthrough when she developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a therapeutic approach that combines acceptance of the self and ways to change. Linehan included mindfulness as a key component in therapy treatment, along with original and specific life-skill techniques. She says, "You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; you can only act yourself into new ways of thinking." Throughout her extraordinary scientific career, Marsha Linehan remained a woman of deep spirituality. Her powerful and moving story is one of faith and perseverance. Linehan shows, in Building a Life Worth Living, how the principles of DBT really work—and how, using her life skills and techniques, people can build lives worth living.
Author : Martin Hägglund
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101873736
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book This Life written by Martin Hägglund and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the René Wellek Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald This Life offers a profoundly inspiring basis for transforming our lives, demonstrating that our commitment to freedom and democracy should lead us beyond both religion and capitalism. Philosopher Martin Hägglund argues that we need to cultivate not a religious faith in eternity but a secular faith devoted to our finite life together. He shows that all spiritual questions of freedom are inseparable from economic and material conditions: what matters is how we treat one another in this life and what we do with our time. Engaging with great philosophers from Aristotle to Hegel and Marx, literary writers from Dante to Proust and Knausgaard, political economists from Mill to Keynes and Hayek, and religious thinkers from Augustine to Kierkegaard and Martin Luther King, Jr., Hägglund points the way to an emancipated life.
Author : Joel Michael Reynolds
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452961603
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The Life Worth Living written by Joel Michael Reynolds and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical challenge to the ableist conflation of disability and pain More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle said: “let there be a law that no deformed child shall live.” This idea is alive and well today. During the past century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. argued that the United States can forcibly sterilize intellectually disabled women and philosopher Peter Singer argued for the right of parents to euthanize certain cognitively disabled infants. The Life Worth Living explores how and why such arguments persist by investigating the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled people across the history of Western moral philosophy. Joel Michael Reynolds argues that this history demonstrates a fundamental mischaracterization of the meaning of disability, thanks to the conflation of lived experiences of disability with those of pain and suffering. Building on decades of activism and scholarship in the field, Reynolds shows how longstanding views of disability are misguided and unjust, and he lays out a vision of what an anti-ableist moral future requires. The Life Worth Living is the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of the history of moral philosophy and phenomenology, and it demonstrates how lived experiences of disability demand a far richer account of human flourishing, embodiment, community, and politics in philosophical inquiry and beyond.
Author : Roger Housden
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307346021
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living written by Roger Housden and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2005-12-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Conventional wisdom,” says Roger Housden, “tells us that nobody goes to heaven for having a good time.” Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living, then, is a refreshing, liberating, and decidedly welcome dose of unconventional wisdom that awakens us to the simple delights and transformative joys of the world around us. With elegance, gentle humor, and remarkable openness, Housden takes us along as he recalls his personal journey toward an appreciation of what he calls the Seven Pleasures: The Pleasure of All Five Senses, The Pleasure of Being Foolish,The Pleasure of Not Knowing, The Pleasure of Not Being Perfect, The Pleasure of Doing Nothing Useful, The Pleasure of Being Ordinary, and The Pleasure of Coming Home. Housden writes, for instance, of submitting to the ultimate folly of falling in love, of celebrating our imperfections, of coming to understand the virtues of the Slow Food movement while enjoying an all-afternoon lunch in a small French village, and of discovering in a Saharan cave that, however extraordinary our surroundings, “we are human, a glorious nothing much to speak of”—and learning to be at peace with the notion. Such pleasures may be suspect in today’s achievement-driven, tightly scheduled, relent-lessly self-improving, conspicuously consumptive culture, but surely the greater sin lies in letting them slip away moment by precious moment. “The purpose of this book,” says Housden, “is to inspire you to lighten up and fall in love with the world and all that is in it.” Reading it is a pleasure indeed. “When you die,God and the angels will hold you accountablefor all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.” Roger Housden, author of the bestselling Ten Poems series, presents a joyously affirmative, warmly personal, and spiritually illuminating meditation on the virtues of opening ourselves up to pleasures like being foolish, not being perfect, and doing nothing useful, the pleasure of not knowing, and even (would you believe it?) the pleasure of being ordinary.
Author : William F. Giruzzi
Publisher : Two Harbors Press
ISBN 13 : 9781935097303
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)
Download or read book A Life Worth Living written by William F. Giruzzi and published by Two Harbors Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how life came to be this way? How did we end up living here? Living this way? The popular answer may be "It's just the way it is," but author Bill Giruzzi tells us that we don't have to accept that - not if we're ready to challenge the established paradigms and demand a better life for ourselves. We've made decisions about life, people, and the world - all of which impact the way we live, but it's time we realized that those decisions are not the end of our story. It's in our hands to change our lives to our own design. This simple concept is at the heart of A Life Worth Living, but this is no mere "you can do it if you try"-type of book. Each chapter offers new insight and many "aha!" moments, as Giruzzi pushes our brains into overdrive with his thought-provoking and inspirational message - and then prods us into even further contemplation by offering "Questions for Further Discovery" at each chapter's end. Armed with a new vision, Bill Giruzzi leads us along a path that ends with a new beginning and with our certainty that we can create a "new paradigm" - a way of life designed so good things happen for us, naturally. As he so aptly notes, "Life is a wonder, and it's time for you to see."
Author : Louise Guy
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781542015981
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)
Download or read book A Life Worth Living written by Louise Guy and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are some white lies simply too big to forgive? Eve and Leah are identical twins--but beyond that, they're polar opposites. Struggling journalist Leah envies Eve's seemingly perfect life--the loyal husband, the beautiful twin daughters, the stellar career--little knowing that what Eve longs for most is Leah's independence. When a shocking event upends their world, one woman seizes a split-second chance to change everything and follow her sister down a different life path. It's a spontaneous choice, but there's no going back. How will she deal with the fallout when covering up one untruth means lying to everyone--about everything? One thing is clear: both twins have secrets, and both just want to be happy. But what price will they pay to live the life they've always wanted? Revised edition: This edition of A Life Worth Living includes editorial revisions.
Author : W. Phillip Keller
Publisher : Kregel Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780825499104
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (991 download)
Download or read book What Makes Life Worth Living written by W. Phillip Keller and published by Kregel Publications. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keller's fiftieth book in fifty years of writing pinpoints twenty-one ways to embrace deeper meaning and joy in our daily lives, beginning with knowing God firsthand. Now in paperback.
Author : Lacey Sturm
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441246525
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)
Download or read book The Reason written by Lacey Sturm and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day Lacey Sturm planned to kill herself was the day her grandmother forced her to go to church, a place Lacey thought was filled with hypocrites, fakers, and simpletons. The screaming match she had with her grandmother was the reason she went to church. What she found there was the Reason she is alive today. With raw vulnerability, this hard rock princess tells her own story of physical abuse, drug use, suicide attempts, and more--and her ultimate salvation. She asks the hard questions so many young people are asking--Why am I here? Why am I empty? Why should I go on living?--showing readers that beyond the temporary highs and the soul-crushing lows there is a reason they exist and a purpose for their lives. She not only gives readers a peek down the rocky path that led her to become a vocalist in a popular hardcore band, but she shows them that the same God is guiding their steps today.
