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Loading... A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live Byby Og Mandino
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) jeanbmac | Jul 28, 2020 |   ) VhartPowers | Dec 27, 2018 |  ) a_t_jackson | Feb 1, 2011 | He's written many books translated into 25 languages and sold over 50 million copies. He remains - according to Wikipedia - one of the best-selling inspirational authors today. A few things in this book that stand out for me: If you want to succeed, you must learn to live with failure. Life isn't fair... and probably never will be. Roman Seneca: "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to assume ourselves with either hopes or fears bur to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it be, without wishing for what he has not." No external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Booker T. Washington: "I shall allow not man to belittle my soul by making me hate him." Samuel Smiles: "We often learn more from our failures than from our successes." As in Golf, the real test in life is not in keeping out of the rough but in getting out after you've hit one in the tall grass. And finally Og's Rule Seventeen for a Better Way to Live: "Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself." ( ) nhimmelrich | Apr 19, 2009 | no reviews | add a review
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The author recounts his descent into despair and his discovery of spiritual nourishment in the works of Aristotle, Emerson, Ben Franklin, and Plato, and enumerates the seventeen rules that helped transform his life. Og Mandino was one of the leading inspirational authors in the world. But once, he was a thirty-five-year-old derelict who nearly spent his last few dollars on a suicide gun. In A Better Way to Live, he describes the joyously redemptive process that turned a down-and-out alcoholic into a millionaire and a happy man within ten years. Og Mandino is the only person who could tell this heartwarming tale of personal triumph--because it is his own true story. And it can profoundly influence your life. Here are the principles that turned Og Mandino's life around: his seventeen "Rules to Live By." These simple, easy-to-follow rules comprise a sound, wise prescription for inner growth and for a fulfilling everyday life that will work for you--just as it worked for Og Mandino. You can avoid spending even one more day feeling failure, grief, poverty, shame, or self-pity. Here is a better way to live: a way that literally saved Og Mandino's life, a way that can help make your dreams come true. No library descriptions found. |
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