Download or read book Intentional Living written by John C. Maxwell and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Maxwell, #1 New York Times bestselling author, helps readers take the first steps to living a life that matters inIntentional Living. We all have a longing to be significant. We want to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful. But many people wrongly believe significance is unattainable. They worry that it's too big for them to achieve. That they have to have an amazing idea, be a certain age, have a lot of money, or be powerful or famous to make a real difference. The good news is that none of those things is necessary for you to achieve significance and create a lasting legacy. The only thing you need to achieve significance is to be intentional. And to do that, all you need to do is start. You can't make an impact sitting still and doing nothing. Every major accomplishment that's ever been achieved started with a first step. Sometimes it's hard; other times it's easy, but no matter what, you have to do it if you want to get anywhere in life. In Intentional Living, John Maxwell will help you take that first step, and the ones that follow, on your personal path through a life that matters.

Download or read book The Love Of My Heart Life is a Story story one written by Madeline Fear and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A (self-)love anthology capturing all the feelings of the heart, centering different people struggling with the same thing over several years and probably the most complicated love story of their lives: the one with themselves. Dive into different emotional journeys ranging from body image over to mental health. All of the characters hope to end up in a place of acceptance and love, no matter in which place, how long ago and with whom they started. After all everyone's self love is different, some quiet, some loud, some hard fought for and none of them should be disregarded whatsoever.

Download or read book The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart written by Alice Walker and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and in fact I was being reborn as the woman I was to become." So says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker about her beautiful new book, in which "one of the best American writers today" (The Washington Post) gives us superb stories based on rich truths from her own experience. Imbued with Walker's wise philosophy and understanding of people, the spirit, sex and love, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart begins with a lyrical, autobiographical story of a marriage set in the violent and volatile Deep South during the early years of the civil rights movement. Walker goes on to imagine stories that grew out of the life following that marriage—a life, she writes, that was "marked by deep sea-changes and transitions." These provocative stories showcase Walker's hard-won knowledge of love of many kinds and of the relationships that shape our lives, as well as her infectious sense of humor and joy. Filled with wonder at the power of the life force and of the capacity of human beings to move through love and loss and healing to love again, The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart is an enriching, passionate book by "a lavishly gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review).

Download or read book The ashes of my heart Life is a Story story one written by Kira Kubetzko and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life I never quite understood the purpose of it all. The highs, the lows, and the in-betweens. If you have fallen into a black hole, how do you climb out? When the lows overshadow the highs. When the once bright sun sets and doesn't rise? When you have lost so much, you're struggling to count your blessings. When you wonder why it happened to you out of eight billion people. When your heart has burned to ashes. Filled with poetry and short stories, this book explores the psyche of a young girl struggling with mental health issues after descending into the hell of loss and trauma, yet longing to rise from the ashes.

Download or read book The Idea of You written by Robinne Lee and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an original movie on Prime Video starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine! When Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of a prestigious art gallery in Los Angeles, takes her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band, she does so reluctantly and at her ex-husband’s request. The last thing she expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident, and posh, and the attraction is immediate. That he is all of twenty years old further complicates things. What begins as a series of clandestine trysts quickly evolves into a passionate relationship. It is a journey that spans continents as Solène and Hayes navigate each other’s disparate worlds: from stadium tours to international art fairs to secluded hideaways in Paris and Miami. And for Solène, it is as much a reclaiming of self, as it is a rediscovery of happiness and love. When their romance becomes a viral sensation, and both she and her daughter become the target of rabid fans and an insatiable media, Solène must face how her new status has impacted not only her life, but the lives of those closest to her.

Download or read book The Burden of Loving You Life is a Story story one written by Kayn Bolter and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a queer son who grew up in a toxic, abusive Muslim household, and of all the people he couldn't love, the hugs he never felt, and the affection he always desired. This book must be released under an alias, not my real name. I hope that someday I can proudly say I wrote it, that it is about my life and the people I loved. I wish I could share with others the stories I witnessed and the laughter I shared. I wish my parents could see and know that I was loved by someone.

Download or read book The art of feeling too much Life is a Story story one written by Mika Amare and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine you spend your whole life feeling too much, more than what anyone else seems to feel. So when no one understands why you feel the way you do, poetry is all that is left to express what others don't want to hear. A collection of poems written over many years. From hopes and dreams to painfully dark times. This is emotion at it's rawest.

Download or read book The Facades of You and Me Life is a Story story one written by Viktoria Isabella Poneleit Parvananight and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems about different Facades of Life, about different Facades of Me. Eine Sammlung von Gedichten, die verschiedene Facetten des Lebens widerspiegeln sei es Liebe, Selbstliebe, Hass, Trauer oder Wut. Diese Gedichte sollen zeigen, wie gleich wir Menschen tief im Inneren sind und dass wir alle aus unterschiedlichen Facetten bestehen. Diese Facetten unterscheiden uns, aber sie zeigen uns auch, wer wir sind und wie ähnlich wir uns sind. Denn jede Emotion, die wir Menschen empfinden können, ist wertvoll, und wir sollten dankbar dafür sein, dass wir diese Gefühle erleben und daraus lernen können.

Download or read book My Heart Is a Chainsaw written by Stephen Graham Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course” (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. “Some girls just don’t know how to die…” Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange. Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life. Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold. Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.

Download or read book Reflection in your eyes Life is a Story story one written by Marwa A. and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One ordinary bus ride changes Tiny's life when her eye catches a mysterious stranger. Somehow she feels connected to him wherefore she wants to find out who he is. But as soon as she starts to search, he disappears without a trace. Will she be able to unravel his mysterious personality?

Download or read book Radical Compassion written by Tara Brach and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.

Download or read book Heartfelt Encounters Life is a Story story one written by Karen Anja Junkermann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within these pages, readers will find themselves transported to diverse landscapes of the heart, where love blooms, where loss leaves its marks, and where redemption offers hope in the darkest of hours. From a tavern in the middle of the city to the own messy desk, each story is a new journey. As readers turn the pages of this collection of short stories, they will be moved to laughter and to tears, finding echoes of their own joys and sorrows reflected in the lives of the characters they meet, especially with the corresponding mood-song every chapter is endowed with.

Download or read book The Art of Perspective Life is a Story story one written by Anna Jaeckel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A break-up. New love. Teenage trouble. Fighting parents. Confusing feelings. Being a teenager means trying to find peace, while your mind is restless. It means overthinking and feeling everything and nothing at the same time. Life is chaos. What happens when a girl who is desperate to feel loved meets a boy who is not sure about what he wants? When others get hurt in the process of falling in love? What does love for a young person even mean? Being a teenager means trying to find love without knowing what love is. This book shows a love story from the perspective of teenagers.

Download or read book The Story Of An Hour written by Kate Chopin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs. Louise Mallard, afflicted with a heart condition, reflects on the death of her husband from the safety of her locked room. Originally published in Vogue magazine, “The Story of an Hour” was retitled as “The Dream of an Hour,” when it was published amid much controversy under its new title a year later in St. Louis Life. “The Story of an Hour” was adapted to film in The Joy That Kills by director Tina Rathbone, which was part of a PBS anthology called American Playhouse. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Download or read book My Heart Can t Even Believe It written by Amy Silverman and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All parent stories about raising a child with Down syndrome are special and unique, but in the hands of a good writer, they can have the power to reach, change, and resonate far beyond family and friends. And that is the case with My Heart Can't Even Believe It, by journalist, blogger, and NPR contributor Amy Silverman. Amy bravely looks at her life, before and after her daughter Sophie was born, and reflects on her transformation from "a spoiled, self-centered brat," who used words like retard and switched lines at the Safeway to avoid a bagger with special needs, into the mother of a kid with Down syndrome and all that her new identity entails. She describes her evolution as gradual, one built by processing her fears and facing questions both big and small about Sophie, Down syndrome, and her place in the world. Funny, touching, and honest, this wonderful book looks at a daughter and her power to change minds and fill hearts with love so deep.

Download or read book The fading Moon Life is a Story story one written by Jay Celios Collins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young knight Celios, furthermore known as the alias Moon leaves his home on the hunt for the blue flower, a miracle he would spend his whole life hunting after. When he finally thinks to have found it, however, he must realise that his allegedly blessing of immortality turns out to be his worst curse as he has to watch his flower wilt and fade away over and over again. Losing himself in the ever changing waters of life, will he be able to save what his heart so desperately desires or will he lose himself while trying? Soon after the moon fades one night, written words are all that will be left behind in a realm that knows only darkness, shadows and icy winters. A realm, he called home.

Download or read book The Way to Bea written by Kat Yeh and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a charming voice, winning characters, and a perfectly-woven plot, Kat Yeh delivers a powerful story of friendship and finding a path towards embracing yourself. Everything in Bea's world has changed. She's starting seventh grade newly friendless and facing big changes at home, where she is about to go from only child to big sister. Feeling alone and adrift, and like her words don't deserve to be seen, Bea takes solace in writing haiku in invisible ink and hiding them in a secret spot. But then something incredible happens--someone writes back. And Bea begins to connect with new friends, including a classmate obsessed with a nearby labyrinth and determined to get inside. As she decides where her next path will lead, she just might discover that her words--and herself--have found a new way to belong.