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"You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of your lifetime. INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness no matter how challenging your circumstances. Drawing on cutting-edge science and their years of helping people translate ideas into action, they show you how to improve your life right now instead of waiting for the...
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"The Danes are famously the happiest people in the world, and hygge is a cornerstone of their way of life. Hygge (pronounce Hoo-ga) loosely translates as a sense of comfort, togetherness, and well-being. You know hygge when you feel it. It is when you are cuddled up on the sofa with a loved one, or sharing comfort food with your closest friends. It is those crisp blue mornings when the light through your window is just right. It is about gratitude...
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Happiness Project discovers a surprising path to a life of more energy, creativity, and love: by tuning in to the five senses. For more than a decade, Gretchen Rubin had been studying happiness and human nature. Then, one day, a visit to her eye doctor made her realize that she'd been overlooking a key element of happiness: her five senses. She'd spent so much time stuck in her head that she'd allowed...
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2022.
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An inspiring new book from the bestselling author of The Little Book of Hygge about how to use space, light, and Danish design to transform your home to fit your needs Now more than ever before, our homes need to be a place of comfort, a place to feel safe when we shut the door. Our homes are where we can truly be ourselves, unwind, and create special memories with our family and friends. Inspired by Danish design and traditions, this beautiful new...
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The Open Field-Penguin Life
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[2021]
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"As Martha Beck says in her book, 'Integrity is the cure for psychological suffering. Period.' In 'The Way of Integrity,' Beck presents a four-stage process that anyone can use to find integrity, and with it, a sense of purpose, emotional healing, and a life free of mental suffering. Much of what plagues us--people pleasing, staying in stale relationships, negative habits--all point to what happens when we are out of touch with what truly makes us...
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Tommy Nelson, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
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[2021]
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"A happy way to deal with the grumpies! In Where'd My Giggle Go? from beloved inspirational author Max Lucado, a young boy searches far and wide for his giggles before he realizes that the best way to be happy is to help others be happy!"--
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Lagom, which means “not too much and not too littlejust right,” is the Swedish philosophy for enjoying balance in every aspect of lifefrom work and leisure to family and food, and everything in between. Experienced bakers know by touch when the dough they are kneading is lagomnot too moist and not too dry. At the office, professionals who work hardbut not to the detriment of other parts of their livesare following the lagom ideal. Lagom is moderation,...
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North Star Way
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2018.
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"From featured "next-generation thought leader" on Oprah Winfrey's Super Soul 100 and #1 New York Times bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein comes a clear, proactive, step-by-step program to rid yourself of the tendency to judge yourself and others, and find your way back to true healing and oneness. Judgment--both being judged and judging others--is the core of our discomfort. While it's powerful, judgment isn't complicated. It's simply the separation...
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Blackstone Publishing
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2023.
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"Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz explores these questions and many more in this profound, poetic, and poignant masterpiece of living and aging joyfully and creatively"--
"*May Book Club Pick by Longevity Book Club "Beautiful…Those lucky enough to read this book will be inspired."...
10) This joy!
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
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2022.
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"Every day is a gift in this exuberant picture book about finding happiness in life’s small moments. My arms aren’t big enough to hold the whole world . . . But when I feel this happy, it’s all I want to do! My voice isn't loud enough to express this joy! Why isn't there a word for feeling this alive? In this poetic and buoyant story from author-illustrator Shelley Johannes, a young child tries to measure the size of her joy and the depth of...
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Books4pocket. Crecimiento y salud volume 431
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Ediciones Urano
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2015.
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Gretchen Rubin no era una mujer infeliz. Tenia un marido que la queria, dos hijas maravillosas y una profesion que le gustaba. Pero una tarde lluviosa se dio cuenta de que el dia de hacer realidad sus propositos jamas llegaria si ella no ponia algo de su parte. Y decidio emprender su proyecto particular: proponerse un objetivo para cada mes del ano que contribuyera a su felicidad: dar pruebas de amor, pedir ayuda, divertirse mas, olvidarse de los...
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Knopf
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2019.
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"A handsome, beautifully produced compilation of meditations and exercises to inspire us to find joy and expand the ways we engage with the people and places, the objects and tasks we encounter in our everyday lives. Long-time workplace advice columnist for The New York Times, Rob Walker, draws from his annual School for Visual Arts course and from interviews he conducted with men and women from a wide range of disciplines, has designed 131 exercises...
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From an ode to the power of questions by Elizabeth Gilbert, a tribute to the animal who taught her everything by Jane Smiley, practical advice about boosting your bliss from Gretchen Rubin, a call to find playful joy in one's life by Brene Brown, a guide to trading stress for serenity by Shonda Rhimes, a glimpse inside the mind of Neil deGrasse Tyson, and more, the editors at O have combed through the magazine's fifteen year history to assemble this...
18) Pass it on
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Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2017]
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"When you see something terrific, smile a smile and pass it on! If you chance upon a chuckle, hee hee hee and pass it on. Should you spot a thing of wonder, jump for joy and pass it on! So begins Sophy Henn's ode to the excitement of sharing happiness with others. With a refrain that begs to be uttered before every turn of the page, children will eagerly read alongside their parents as they discover how wonderful--and fun!--it is to share the good...
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Deep Vellum
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[2022]
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"The Traces is a ranging inquiry into the seductions of memory and travel, the fragile paradox of desire, and the art of making meaning from a life. Mairead Small Stead's debut, The Traces is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the...
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From the chief medical correspondent of ABC News, an eloquent, heartbreaking, yet hopeful memoir of surviving the suicide of a loved one, examining this dangerous epidemic and offering first-hand knowledge and advice to help family and friends find peace. Part memoir and part comforting guide that incorporates the latest insights from researchers and health professionals, Life After Suicide is both a call to arms against this dangerous, devastating...
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