"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.
具體描述
讀後感
I remember John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of Dakota; '' Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.'' School never ends, classroom is everywhere, the exam comes at the very end.
評分I remember John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of Dakota; '' Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.'' School never ends, classroom is everywhere, the exam comes at the very end.
評分I remember John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of Dakota; '' Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.'' School never ends, classroom is everywhere, the exam comes at the very end.
評分I remember John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of Dakota; '' Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.'' School never ends, classroom is everywhere, the exam comes at the very end.
評分I remember John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of Dakota; '' Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.'' School never ends, classroom is everywhere, the exam comes at the very end.
用戶評價
treat life as a terminal illness
评分via Sheryl Sandberg A small book. Several awesome quotes. "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat." "You can't be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are."
评分印入腦海最深的是這句：no one ever said on his deathbed that I wish I had spent more time in my office.
评分I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. Look at the view.
评分短短的一小本，心靈雞湯類的，Quindlen的文字挺美。
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