The Classic and Timeless Guide To Happiness Through Kindness
HAPPINESS FIND HAPPINESS, INCREASED SELF-ESTEEM AND PERSONAL FULFILLMENT Your Unfinished Life by Lawrence J. Danks (ISBN: 978-0-615-24207-1) Kirkus Discoveries: "A well-considered, compact guide to centuries of literature about kindness and happiness." Midwest Book Reviews: "Unless one is already a corpse, there is still time to change. "Your Unfinished Life: The Classic and Timeless Guide to Finding Happiness and Success Through Kindness" is a book encouraging readers to embrace change for the better and don't let something like age or obligations stand in one's way to finding true happiness in one's life...not doing so ends with one having countless regrets. "Your Unfinished Life" is well worth reading for those who want to be the person they think they can be." Tom Butler-Bowdon - Best Selling Author of:50 Self-Help Classics "This book shows that kindness is not 'soft', but a strength that makes life better and richer for all concerned. There can be few more important subjects to write on, and Danks elegantly and forcefully lays out the case for kindness with many great examples."
Gordon Livingston, M.D., Author of The National Bestseller: Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need To Know Now -"Larry Danks has kindly given us this valuable guide to the successful pursuit of happiness and meaning in our lives by suggesting many ways that we can cultivate the queen of virtues: kindness. All who read this book and reify its lessons will be ennobled thereby." ***(See more reviews? Click fourth page from bottom on upper left corner pages listing.)
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All About Your Unfinished Life:
As we go through our daily lives, we sometimes feel that a material piece of ourselves is missing, something that’s undefined and unfulfilled. As Thoreau noted in Walden, “When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence…explore your own higher latitudes.” E.E.Cummings said that: “The hardest thing in the world is being yourself…There is no reason to rejoice for the man who would rather walk with the noise and avoid the voice.” Your Unfinished Life provides revealing insights that can lead you to your highest self. A reporter once asked George Bernard Shaw, “If you could live your life over and be anybody you’ve known, or be any person from history, who would it be?” Shaw replied, “I would choose to be the man George Bernard Shaw could have been, but never was.” Who could you have been? Don’t let your unplayed music die inside you. Find yourself through assistive interaction with others. Let Your Unfinished Life help you make a real difference in your happiness -- and in your life. Your Unfinished Life is not a religious book. It is inspirational and motivational in a broader sense. Let it help you create a better, happier and more fulfilling life. The Table of Contents and Sample Pages appear below. Let Your Unfinished Life make the most of someone else you care about better too. Give it to anyone who could benefit by being happier and kinder. What better gift someone give to another than helping to make the rest of someone's life happier? Many motivational and heartwarming stories to inspire you. Dozens of quotations from Marcus Aurelius, The Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Wayne Dyer and many others to help you.
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Happiness and Kindness Chapter 2 On Kindness (1911) Chapter 3 Kindness (1892) Chapter 4 Finding Yourself Through Others Chapter 5 Conflicting Thoughts on Kindness Chapter 6 You - Making A Difference Chapter 7 40 Ways To Be Kinder and Happier Chapter 8 Make Someone Happy - And You Will Be Happy Too Chapter 9 Concluding Thoughts on Finding Happiness Recommended Resources on Happiness and Kindness
A Message To You From The Author: We all want to be happy. To most of us that means achieving personal fulfillment and success in one way or another. I'm not speaking of material success, which is certainly pleasant, but of something far more life changing and long lasting, real gratification or what is sometimes also called authentic happiness.
Your Unfinished Life is all about finding personal fulfillment and finding peace of mind. It's a broadly spiritual,self -help book because it's designed to re-energize, but it's not about religion. It's not about being Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, of any other faith, nor does it presume a belief in God or a high presence. Regardless of her/his affiliation or non affiliation,everyone seeks happiness and self-esteem. While I didn't set it as an objective when I started writing, I was surprised when I completed the book to find that it incorporated wisdom from a variety of cultural and religious traditions and from thoughtful people from very varied walks of life.
What is suggested in this book is something good, desirable and readily adoptable by anyone of good will seeking to find more personal satisfaction out of life. Your Unfinished Life is a book of inspiration and motivation, one that contains dozens of inspirational and motivational quotations that provide time tested wisdom, and serve as a powerful guide to living a better and more productive life you can be proud of. There is great power and satisfaction in knowing that you have the ability to help someone else. It provides the opportunity for personal growth and real self-improvement. Your Unfinished Life also contains many touching and heartwarming stories you'll enjoy and remember.
This is my fifth book. The others were about real estate principles, real estate advertising, and career guidance for college students. Some people might wonder why a college business administration professor and real estate broker would write a book like Your Unfinished Life. But I believe this book is the best one I've written because its effect is more far reaching and its message is timeless. Making the most out of the rest of our own unfinished lives is something we can all relate to and wish for in one way or another. It's about the ability to make some kind of a difference in something we decide is important to us. I want my life to count for something in the time I have left. Living a worthwhile life makes it something we can be proud of today and enables us to leave our best legacy to the future too.
We can all make a difference in things large and small. My mother used to tell me that everyone wants to do the big things, but not as many want to do the small things. Mother Teresa noted however that in the little things, true greatness is found.
We all have unspent currency inside of us. I hope that this book will help you find and spend your own often and well. Believe me when I tell you, I'm working on it also. That's part of the reason I wrote this book. Not just to hopefully inspire others, but to remind myself too.
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Best wishes, Lawrence J. Danks
I'd Like To Do Something Worthwhile,If I Knew What To Do and How To Do It. Here's Your Chance...
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