With quotes from Robin Williams to William Shakespeare, the Dalai Lama to Bruce Lee--woven together and unpacked with humor and heart, The Quote Book of Your Life is the given companion for the curious soul. It is the friend who stands beside you as you lose yourself in the distance, wondering if there is more. The one who shares your poetry of thoughts and sees how events are notes, and you the musician, playing time as your life unfolds. But it is also the friend who sees your hurt, and helps you forward. Because sometimes it's all sh*t. It's a part of being human. Just like having a friend and not being alone. *** "Jack Kornfield-class! With a humor that can only come from someone who has made it through adversity in life." - Maria Eng, Author & Creator of Studio Vira "What I love about this intriguing piece of craftsmanship is the optimistic tone connected to an inner darkness, the seriousness and the humor [...] the balance that I believe makes it a very rare book. A mirror, that helps you unfold your own wisdom." - Karl-Magnus Möller, Founder & TEDx speaker "This book is a little gem that isn't just worthy of one or a couple of read-throughs--it's a book to keep close [...]. Smiles and giggles during your reading experience are just an added bonus." - Hanna Johansson, Editor *** These are the people quoted: Robin Williams, Wayne Dyer, William Shakespeare, Richard Branson, Will Rogers, Lindsey Sterling, some guy named Unknown, Fredrik Eklund, Jon Hamm, Anthony Robbins, Satchel Paige, Johnny Depp, Joyce Meyer, Charlie Chaplin, Emma Mildon, Aristotle, Napoleon Hill, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Kosmas, Voltaire, Norman Vincent Peale, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wilde, Anne Frank, Winston Churchill, Warren Buffett, Mark Cuban, Soren Kierkegaard, William James, Ralph Marston, Deepak Chopra, Theodore Roosevelt, Sigmund Freud, Helen Mirren, Paul Newman, Bruce Lee, Peter Drucker, Robert Tew, George Bernard Shaw, Edgar Allan Poe, Dale Carnegie, Michael J. Fox, Laura Dekker, Christopher Reeve, Dalai Lama, Tim Ferriss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mohammad Ali, James Dean, Helen Keller, Jack Sparrow (yes), Dag Hammarskjold, William James, Jennifer Lawrence, John Lennon, George Michael, Mark Twain, James Franco, Nelson Mandela, Galileo Galilei, J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk, Bob Proctor, Jim Carrey, David Ogilvy, Paulo Coelho, Jake Gyllenhaal, Neale Donald Walsch, Plato, Denis Waitley, and Joe Vitale.

Allen Klein, master of the right quote at the right moment, has gathered his favorite, most inspiring words of wisdom into this treasury of moving and meaningful sayings from around the world that incite readers to live life to the fullest. Readers can take this book on the go to get a quick shot of inspiration at any time, or they can select one quote every day for in-depth thought and meditation. The book’s small size makes it ideal to carry in a purse or a bag, or to keep by the computer for those moments of need. However readers choose to use these uplifting and inspiring quotes, they all have the potential to be life-changing. Kipling once said that words are "the most powerful drug used by mankind" — the words in this book are the prescription readers need to revise their lives. The book features a foreword by Jack Canfield, cocreator of the best-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.

Secrets ruin lives, and lies protect those secrets... Wanting to escape her life in New York City before starting medical school in the fall, Anna Dillon convinces her best friend Dante to travel with her to Thailand on a medical mission. While volunteering in a coastal village recently ravaged by a tsunami, Anna meets Jude Grayson. They share an instant attraction that leads to a brief, passionate affair. When she has to rush home for a family emergency, he promises to stay in touch. But Jude never calls, and Anna tries desperately to forget him. Five years pass, and Anna finally moves on with Dante after giving up hope that Jude will ever return--until they come face to face again in a chance encounter. Reeling, Anna discovers the life-altering secret of why Jude never contacted her--and why they can't be together. But the passion that ignited between them on an exotic beach years ago never died, making it impossible to stay away from each other. And Dante? Anna discovers that the friend she grew to love--and trust--has a secret of his own.

Great Quotes that Inspire, Motivate, and Lift You Up! The quotes in this book will help you to improve your life by focusing on 7 Key Thoughts – elaborated upon in the book, 7 Thoughts to Live Your Life By: A Guide to the Happy, Peaceful, & Meaningful Life. These 7 Thoughts encourage you to focus on what you can control, the positive, what you can do, what you have, the present moment, what you need, and what you can give. This is the key to finding happiness, peace, and meaning in your life. Thus, the quotes in this book are meant to help you master the 7 Thoughts and to help you live your best life. 365 Quotes to Live Your Life By will be more focused than other quote books, allowing you to keep your mind on what is most important, and helping you to produce real and long-lasting positive changes in your life. Internationally bestselling author I. C. Robledo has used the 365 Quotes and the 7 Thoughts they are based on to empower and transform his life, to keep focused on what truly matters, and to make sure he is always making progress. The 365 Quotes support the 7 Thoughts and serve as his daily inspirational dose to make the best of every day. As he believes these quotes have great potential to help us all, he is now sharing them with everyone that he possibly can. The 365 Quotes to Live Your Life By will help you to: - Be inspired to improve yourself - Attract positivity - Find happiness & enjoy life - Pursue your purpose - Achieve success - Boost your self-esteem - Make your dreams come true - Help friends and family to improve their lives This collection of Great Quotes comes from a diverse range of Great People – men and women from the East to the West, from ancient to modern times, from artists to philosophers to scientists to entrepreneurs and more. Some notable people quoted include: Elon Musk, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Frida Kahlo, Dalai Lama XIV, Paulo Coelho, Marie Curie, Anne Frank, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Confucius, Rumi, & Mother Teresa. Absorb some of the most inspirational wisdom of all times with 365 Quotes to Live Your Life By. Pick up your copy today by scrolling to the top of the page and clicking BUY NOW. Editorial Reviews "This book been through some things, you know, financially, emotionally, physically, spiritually, all types of stuff. I've been down with the book, the book brought me back up, been back down, and brought me back up again." — Oliver James, TikTok Sensation and Motivational Speaker (@oliverspeaks1) whose story has been featured on ABC's Good Morning America, the Rachael Ray Show, and NPR. "I live for quotes and positive affirmations. This is a great collection of them for all different types of life situations." — Maria Howard, Writing Consultant, Amazon.com "This is a collection of thought-provoking inspirational quotes, and some of them come from surprising sources. If, like me, you're a sucker for a good quote, you'll enjoy this book." — Susan Flett Swiderski, reader, Amazon.com "It was as good as I thought it would be. Reading this book reminded me of my inner voice and what I need to listen to more. We need to hear the positive side instead of the negative side or we lose who we can truly be!!!" — Amazon Customer, reader, Amazon.co.uk "Magnificent: The quotes are amazing and relevant to our current society." — Onesmus A., reader, Kobo.com "Most powerful book ❤️" — Ezaz Ahamed, reader, Play.Google.com "Best book I ever read." — Sunilsonu Sunilsonu, reader, Play.Google.com

From the New York Times bestselling author and former beauty editor Cat Marnell, a “vivid, maddening, heartbreaking, very funny, chaotic” (The New York Times) memoir of prescription drug addiction and self-sabotage, set in the glamorous world of fashion magazines and downtown nightclubs. At twenty-six, Cat Marnell was an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America—and that’s all most people knew about her. But she hid a secret life. She was a prescription drug addict. She was also a “doctor shopper” who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists for pills, pills, and more pills; a lonely bulimic who spent hundreds of dollars a week on binge foods; a promiscuous party girl who danced barefoot on banquets; a weepy and hallucination-prone insomniac who would take anything—anything—to sleep. This is a tale of self-loathing, self-sabotage, and yes, self-tanner. It begins at a posh New England prep school—and with a prescription for the Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin. It continues to New York, where we follow Marnell’s amphetamine-fueled rise from intern to editor through the beauty departments of NYLON, Teen Vogue, Glamour, and Lucky. We see her fight between ambition and addiction and how, inevitably, her disease threatens everything she worked so hard to achieve. From the Condé Nast building to seedy nightclubs, from doctors’ offices and mental hospitals, Marnell “treads a knife edge between glamorizing her own despair and rendering it with savage honesty.…with the skill of a pulp novelist” (The New York Times Book Review) what it is like to live in the wild, chaotic, often sinister world of a young female addict who can’t say no. Combining “all the intoxicating intrigue of a thriller and yet all the sobering pathos of a gifted writer’s true-life journey to recover her former health, happiness, ambitions, and identity” (Harper’s Bazaar), How to Murder Your Life is mesmerizing, revelatory, and necessary.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Anna Quindlen presents a “swift and compelling paean to the joys of books” (Booklist). “Like the columns she used to write for the New York Times, [How Reading Changed My Life] is tart, smart, full of quirky insights, lapidary, and a pleasure to read.”—Publishers Weekly “Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. . . . Yet of all the many things in which we recognize universal comfort—God, sex, food, family, friends—reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung, at least publicly, although it was really all I thought of, or felt, when I was eating up book after book, running away from home while sitting in a chair, traveling around the world and yet never leaving the room. . . . I read because I loved it more than any activity on earth.”—from How Reading Changed My Life

An inspiring guide to finding your life’s purpose—what spiritual teachers call dharma—through mindfulness and self-exploration. Stephen Cope says that in order to have a fulfilling life you must discover the deep purpose hidden at the very core of your self. The secret to unlocking this mystery, he asserts, can be found in the pages of a two-thousand-year-old spiritual classic called the Bhagavad Gita—an ancient allegory about the path to dharma, told through a timeless dialogue between the fabled archer, Arjuna, and his divine mentor, Krishna. Cope takes readers on a step-by-step tour of this revered tale and highlights well-known Western lives that embody its central principles—including such luminaries as Jane Goodall, Walt Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, John Keats, and Harriet Tubman, along with stories of ordinary people as well. If you’re feeling lost in your own life’s journey, The Great Work of Your Life may help you to find and to embrace your true calling. Praise for The Great Work of Your Life “Keep a pen and paper handy as you read this remarkable book: It’s like an owner’s manual for the soul.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion “A masterwork . . . You’ll find inspiration in these pages. You’ll gain a better appreciation of divine guidance and perhaps even understand how you might better hear it in your own life.”—Yoga Journal “I am moved and inspired by this book, the clarity and beauty of the lives lived in it, and the timeless dharma it teaches.”—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart “A rich source of contemplation and inspiration [that] encourages readers . . . to discover and fully pursue their inner self’s calling.”—Publishers Weekly “Fabulous . . . If you have ever wondered what your purpose is, this book is a great guide to help you on your path.”—YogaHara

Life is short. You can, if you work hard and are lucky, get more of almost anything, but you can't get more time. Time only goes one way. The average American has a lifespan of less than 30,000 days. So how you choose to live matters. That's the topic of this book. I don't pretend to have all the answers. I'm still learning every day, and many of the good ideas here I've picked up from other people either directly or by reading. But this is what's worked for me. Like life, this book is short. Many books I read could communicate their ideas in fewer pages. So I've tried to be brief in line with the wise person who noted: "If I'd had more time I would have written a shorter letter". I don't think brevity implies lack of content. The concepts here have improved the quality of my life, and I hope they're useful to you as well. Using these concepts, I have created a life I love. My job doesn't feel like work. I love and respect the people with whom I spend time. And I'm also passionate about my life outside work. I've learned how to create a balance that makes me happy between work and other interests, including my family, friends and exercise. Sadly I think that's rare. And yet, while I know I'm lucky, most people can work towards those goals in their own lives. My interest in making the most of my life began when I was just starting college, but when I was in my mid-thirties a boss I admired died of cancer. He was young. He had a great wife; he had three young children; he had a fantastic career -- he had everything in life. He just didn't have enough time. So, while I'd often thought about how to get the most out of life, the death of someone so young and vital increased my sense of urgency to act on it. One of the things I've always wanted to do was to work for myself. As a result, I left an exciting job at Microsoft in 2001 amidst the Internet bust to found the investing firm I now run. It was hard to do, both financially and emotionally. When I left Microsoft, many people - friends, family, and even some of the press - thought I was deluding myself to start a fund focused on Internet-related companies during a market crash. A press quote from the time said: "Call him a little crazy. Call him a little nuts." I'd never seen that type of coverage before. And, in a sense, the press was right; the business wasn't easy to start. Fortunately, from a vantage point of ten years down the road, it's worked out quite well. A key part of my job is reading and thinking about a broad variety of topics. So writing this book was relatively easy. It's even easier to read. But, like many things in life, actually executing each day on these concepts is extremely difficult. With thanks to Thomas Edison, life is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Even so, I hope you have fun perspiring. Peter Atkins Seattle, WA December, 2010

Find just the right quote to motivate and inspire you in this collection of hard-earned wisdom, sudden illuminations, and lightning wit. The right quotation can change your life. That condensed idea—expressed in just a few words or a sentence or two—can shift your thinking, trigger an epiphany, and alter your way of seeing the world. The wisest, most experienced, and most thoughtful people in history have left us these little thought-bombs, and this book collects them. Surprising, jolting, discomforting, and comforting insights urge us to live a full, unbridled life, question authority and reality, relate to fellow humans, create, risk, love, live with uncertainty, and stay sane in an insane world. Poets, philosophers, scientists, musicians, artists, presidents, mystics, activists, academics, and others rub shoulders here and give us the benefit of their hard-earned wisdom, breakthroughs, breakdowns, bad choices, sudden illuminations, and lightning wit. Sharing some of life’s most important lessons are William Blake and Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln and Lorrie Moore, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Terence McKenna, René Magritte and St. Teresa of Avila, Zelda Fitzgerald and James Baldwin, and hundreds more. Neatly arranged into topics that everyone wonders about, this inspirational volume is filled with rousing insights and challenging thoughts that will appeal to anyone who is searching, anyone who doesn’t fit in, anyone who questions the way things are . . . which is to say, everyone. Previously published as Flash Wisdom