Résultats pour "Happiness" dans Biographies et mémoires

Gretchen Rubin had an epiphany one rainy afternoon in the unlikeliest of places: a city bus. "The days are long, but the years are short," she realized. "Time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." In that moment, she decided to dedicate a year to her happiness project.

Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant - Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids.

‘Each of us is born, I believe, with a unique mission, a purpose in life that only we can fulfill. We are linked by a shared responsibility: to help our human family grow kinder and happier.’ Tina Turner, one of the world’s most beloved artists and entertainers, reveals the deep wisdom...

Robin Singh had everything he wanted and more—well-settled in the US, financial freedom, married to the love of his life—except he was not happy. It was in his pursuit of happiness that he stumbled across purpose. It eventually took giving up on happiness and pursuing purpose before he...

'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton 'Fascinating, funny and heart wrenching' Dame Julie...

Tina Turner ist ein Weltstar. Doch ihr Leben kannte nicht nur Höhen, sondern auch große Tiefen. Zum ersten Mal berichtet sie jetzt davon, was ihr geholfen hat, diese oft sehr schwierigen Situationen zu meistern. Denn seit über 40 Jahren ist Tina Turner praktizierende Buddhistin. Hier teilt sie mit uns ihre spirituellen Erkenntnisse, beschreibt ihre Meditationspraxis und die darin verborgenen Geheimnisse für Zufriedenheit und Erfolg. Es ist ihr ein persönliches Anliegen, ihre Lebenslektionen einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zu schenken, um anderen gerade auch in schwierigen Situationen Hilfestellungen zu geben.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny, and deeply human case for joy that doesn’t depend on everything getting better. “Joyful, Anyway is colorful and layered, unafraid of the occasional gut-punch of raw...

The million-copy internationally bestselling life guide about how to stop comparing yourself to others—especially on social media—and how to find the strength to be yourself In a world where it can seem impossible to feel that you are ever good enough, and where it’s easy to judge yourself...

For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography. “In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God … perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in...

A luminous, searching memoir of illness, uncertainty, and the strange, intimate work of healing In 2022, Emma Zimmerman contracted COVID-19. What she expected to be a mild illness instead unraveled into something far more disorienting: a cascade of persistent, inexplicable symptoms that reshaped...

A book to lift your spirits: inspiring stories of people’s happiest moments from every country in the world, showing the many forms that happiness takes and what we have in common with people across borders and from all walks of life From the shores of the island nation of Tuvalu to the icy...

From one of the most captivating and perceptive writers of our time and the bestselling author of Aflame—a life-affirming memoir on the challenges of facing death For forty years, Pico Iyer has been known as a keen observer of crisscrossing cultures and a soulful exponent of the art of...

A remarkable book that will both guide and inspire, The Happiness of Pursuit reveals how anyone can bring meaning into their life by undertaking a quest. When he set out to visit all of the planet’s countries by age thirty-five, compulsive goal seeker Chris Guillebeau never imagined that his journey’s biggest revelation would be how many people like himself exist – each pursuing a challenging quest. And, interestingly, these quests aren’t just travel-oriented.

A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of...

A LILLY’S LIBRARY BOOK CLUB PICK In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman’s dreams of being a well-adjusted college student get wildly derailed when her struggles with mental health land her in the office of a charismatic alternative therapist...

Academy Award–nominated actor Richard E. Grant’s “genuine and compelling” (The New York Times), “moving and entertaining” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) memoir about finding happiness in even the darkest of days. Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with...

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It’s finally time for Jan, Jan, Jan! As Jan Brady, America’s most memorable middle child on the beloved TV sitcom, The Brady Bunch, Eve Plumb has been an enduring icon of American pop culture for over 60 years. Now in an engaging, intimate memoir, she shares the behind-the-scenes story of...

Equal parts memoir and road map to living a less stressful and more vibrant life, bestselling author Jesse Itzler offers an illuminating, entertaining, and unexpected trip for anyone looking to feel calmer and more controlled in our crazy, hectic world. Entrepreneur, endurance athlete, and...

From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection. “Brilliant. Inciting Joy is a book that will break your heart.” —Ada Limón, US poet laureate “A gift that’s meant to be shared.” —The...