This book contains a collection of original quotes about how to lead a meaningful life and find your path. Quotes similar to If you dream only while sleeping you are giving your own possibilities only half a measure. 80-page hardcover book with a 24K gold-plated charm on a ribbon bookmark; 3-1/4 wide x 4 high.

LIFE is singing the song within you that yearns to be sung. Join Jim Phillips as he explains the "simplexities" of LIFE over the course of your current, unique "souljourn." The Key to LIFE: Living In Full Expression reveals ancient wisdom within the context of modern day living that unlocks the vault of Divine wisdom within you. Jim's insights and experiences offer an opportunity to gain clarity and answer your questions concerning your soul, your purpose, and your active role as the creator of your own life. Your song is the grandest expression and experience of Self that patiently awaits your willingness to sing it loud and clear. The Key to LIFE is the songbook for singing that song.

Humility, or holding power loosely for the sake of others, is sorely lacking in today’s world. Without it, many people fail to develop their true leadership potential and miss out on genuine fulfillment in their lives and their relationships. Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership shows how the virtue of humility can turn your strengths into true greatness in all areas of life. Through the lessons of history, business, and the social sciences, author John Dickson shows that humility is not low self-esteem, groveling, or losing our distinct gifts. Instead, humility both recognizes our inherent worth and seeks to use whatever power we have at our disposal on behalf of others. Some of the world’s most inspiring and influential players have been people of immense humility. The more we learn about humility, the more we understand how essential it is to a satisfying career and personal life. By embracing this virtue, we will transform for good the unique contributions we each make to the world.

“Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.” —Stevie Wonder, “Sir Duke” In 2003, young professor Ferentz LaFargue traveled to Paris, where his fiancée, Tricia, declared she wasn’t happy with their relationship, ending what he thought was a wonderful engagement. After days of “craying”—“that sorrow-laden blend of crying and praying delivered in perfect pitch by those in mourning”—Ferentz happened upon Stevie Wonder’s 1976 classic double album Songs in the Key of Life. Listening to it anew was a healing, spiritual trip down memory lane, helping him to come to terms with his breakup and reflect on how songs in general have been linked to his life. In this book, Ferentz invites us to get cozy and listen as he hits PLAY on meaningful tracks from Wonder and others, including Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, LL Cool J, Beenie Man, Sheryl Crow, Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, and Black Sabbath. He recalls: How the fusion of rock and rap in the breakthrough Run-D.M.C./Aerosmith video “Walk This Way” helped to change an adolescent Ferentz from outcast to authority figure How Michael Jackson’s Thriller brought back a traumatic childhood experience How Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks” speaks to the tension between his Christian beliefs and his need to rip it up in clubs as a hip-hop head In the tradition of Nick Hornby’s Songbook¸ these words paint a portrait of a life framed by sounds, allowing all of us to think about what songs have been key in our own lives.

Early childhood educators face many challenges and stresses today. This heartwarming collection of 20 stories by Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld will help you remember why you became a teacher and why what you do every day is so important in the lives of young children. You'll read about classrooms filled with joy, laughter, love, and a celebration of learning. This book was copublished by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and Redleaf Press. Born and raised in New York City, Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld began her teaching career in Albany, New York, in 1956, teaching fourth grade. Since that time, she has taught adults and children of all ages and grades, from Head Start to Upward Bound, from New York to Hawaii. Her special love is celebrating the arts and creativity in all her programs. Since 1970, Mimi has been totally immersed in the education and arts community in Columbus, Ohio, now her home base from which she travels extensively to be with teachers, university students, and children. The author of many poems, stories, and novels, her books Teaching by Heart, Celebrating Young Children and Their Teachers, and Creative Experiences for Young Children are widely used. Her children's novel, The House at 12 Rose Street, one of the first controversial stories for children, was adapted for an After School Special and nominated for an Emmy. The recipient of many honors, Mimi's favorite comes from a child who wrote, "Mimi, you are the Queen of Fun!"

The key to life? A question many of us ask ourselves on a daily basis. Why am I here? Why did I do that? What makes me different from the rest? The world we live in today is a different world from yesterday. In my opinion, majority of people are being brought up believing in violence, war, suicide, crime, abuse, bullying, Alcohol & Drugs but most of all people seem to believe in money. To which all prove a negative effect on our lives. You could believe Alcohol & Drugs are the Devil of our time, spreading like the plague wiping out humanity, mentally and physically. Disability rates are rising fast throughout the world constantly. The NHS are over run with mentally ill depressed people, as are the drug & alcohol services and nobody seems to have an answer, so we carry on running around in circles chasing our tails like dogs made to accept our fate of diagnosis be it mentally ill or addicted. The highest killer of men today under the age of 45 is suicide, which gives me the reason to believe unless we do something about it, we are a dying breed. Growing within the human race due to negligence to others, negativity toward our own flesh & blood. Cancers now leaving us & our children with a roundabout whopping fifty percent chance of being diagnosed. That’s before we smoke, drink or take drugs. As we grow older some of us begin ask ourselves, where have our lives gone? Most uneducated people only seem to believe that Jesus was nailed to the cross, this day in age, nobody wants to learn how or why? Because unfortunately this day in age Jesus didn’t sniff cocaine, to which I'd image hes probably pleased about, as he had a bad enough time as it was. Should you choose to believe in yourself & the power of life itself, the power of love. You will not be lead astray. Together we will change the entire world for ourselves, and our children thinking twice about the future. I will tell you the story of my own upbringing through to this very day, the good times and the bad. School, careers, major addictions, depression, suicide attempts, negativity from others, positivity from the other side, my passion for music, how life affected me and how I got through it. What if this Book reaches out to everybody in some way shape or form? Giving my overall opinion on mental illness, addiction, relationship problems, and many other healing capabilities including my own personal view on cancer. But most of all an opinion to happiness in life!

A poet’s audio obsession, from collecting his earliest vinyl to his quest for the ideal vacuum tubes. A captivating book that “ingeniously mixes personal memoir with cultural history and offers us an indispensable guide for the search of acoustic truth” (Yunte Huang, author of Charlie Chan). Garrett Hongo’s passion for audio dates back to the Empire 398 turntable his father paired with a Dynakit tube amplifier in their modest tract home in Los Angeles in the early 1960s. But his adult quest begins in the CD-changer era, as he seeks out speakers and amps both powerful and refined enough to honor the top notes of the greatest opera sopranos. In recounting this search, he describes a journey of identity where meaning, fulfillment, and even liberation were often most available to him through music and its astonishingly varied delivery systems. Hongo writes about the sound of surf being his first music as a kid in Hawai‘i, about doo-wop and soul reaching out to him while growing up among Black and Asian classmates in L.A., about Rilke and Joni Mitchell as the twin poets of his adolescence, and about feeling the pulse of John Coltrane’s jazz and the rhythmic chords of Billy Joel’s piano from his car radio while driving the freeways as a young man trying to become a poet. Journeying further, he visits devoted collectors of decades-old audio gear as well as designers of the latest tube equipment, listens to sublime arias performed at La Scala, hears a ghostly lute at the grave of English Romantic poet John Keats in Rome, drinks in wisdom from blues musicians and a diversity of poetic elders while turning his ear toward the memory-rich strains of the music that has shaped him: Hawaiian steel guitar and canefield songs; Bach and the Band; Mingus, Puccini, and Duke Ellington. And in the decades-long process of perfecting his stereo setup, Hongo also discovers his own now-celebrated poetic voice.

Includes a FREE CD of Guided Meditations by Debbie Ford, the Author of The Best Year of Your Life The beauty of Key to Yourself is seen through Venice Bloodworth's insightful approach to combining modern psychology and the very same principles taught thousands of years ago by master teachers such as Jesus. In searching for her own spiritual enlightenment, Venice Bloodworth found the root of true happiness based on concepts of spiritual psychology that disclosed the power of the mind to thinkitself to wellness, prosperity, and peace. Although the world has changed drastically over time, people are still confronted with the same fears and inner conflicts. Key to Yourself meets these challenges with ageless wisdom and boundless compassion.