Author: Émile Souvestre
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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The Pleasures of Old Age, Etc
Author: Émile Souvestre
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Cicero on Old Age. Literally Translated, Etc
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Life Gets Better
Author: Wendy Lustbader
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101547677
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The acclaimed author of What's Worth Knowing reveals the truth about aging: Old age often offers a richer, better, and more self-assured life than youth. From our earliest lives, we are told that our youth will be the best time of our lives-that the energy and vitality of youth are the most important qualities a person can possess, and that everything that comes after will be a sad decline. But in reality, says Wendy Lustbader, youth is not the golden era it is often made out to be. For many, it is a time riddled with anxiety, angst, confusion, and the torture of uncertainty. Conversely, the media often feeds us a vision of growing older as a journey of defeat and diminishment. They are dead wrong. As Lustbader counters, "Life gets better as we get older, on all levels except the physical." Life Gets Better is not a precious or whimsical tome on the quirky wisdom of the elderly. Lustbader-who has worked for several decades as a social worker specializing in aging issues-conducted firsthand research with aging and elderly people in all walks of life, and she found that they overwhelmingly spoke of the mental and emotional richness they have drawn from aging. Lustbader discovered that rather than experiencing a decline from youth, aging people were happier, more courageous, and more interested in being true to their inner selves than were young people. Life Gets Better examines through first-person stories, as well as Lustbader's own observations, how a lifetime of lessons learned can yield one of the most personally and emotionally fruitful periods of anyone's life. As an eighty-six-year-old who contributed her story to the book noted, "For me, being old is the reward for outlasting all the big and little problems that happen to all of us along life's pathway." The collected stories in Life Gets Better provide a hopeful corrective to the fear of aging aggressively instilled in us by the media. Don't dread the future: The best years of our lives just may be ahead.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101547677
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The acclaimed author of What's Worth Knowing reveals the truth about aging: Old age often offers a richer, better, and more self-assured life than youth. From our earliest lives, we are told that our youth will be the best time of our lives-that the energy and vitality of youth are the most important qualities a person can possess, and that everything that comes after will be a sad decline. But in reality, says Wendy Lustbader, youth is not the golden era it is often made out to be. For many, it is a time riddled with anxiety, angst, confusion, and the torture of uncertainty. Conversely, the media often feeds us a vision of growing older as a journey of defeat and diminishment. They are dead wrong. As Lustbader counters, "Life gets better as we get older, on all levels except the physical." Life Gets Better is not a precious or whimsical tome on the quirky wisdom of the elderly. Lustbader-who has worked for several decades as a social worker specializing in aging issues-conducted firsthand research with aging and elderly people in all walks of life, and she found that they overwhelmingly spoke of the mental and emotional richness they have drawn from aging. Lustbader discovered that rather than experiencing a decline from youth, aging people were happier, more courageous, and more interested in being true to their inner selves than were young people. Life Gets Better examines through first-person stories, as well as Lustbader's own observations, how a lifetime of lessons learned can yield one of the most personally and emotionally fruitful periods of anyone's life. As an eighty-six-year-old who contributed her story to the book noted, "For me, being old is the reward for outlasting all the big and little problems that happen to all of us along life's pathway." The collected stories in Life Gets Better provide a hopeful corrective to the fear of aging aggressively instilled in us by the media. Don't dread the future: The best years of our lives just may be ahead.
The Treatises on Old Age and Friendship of Marcus T. Cicero, Etc
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Enjoy Old Age
Author: Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393316513
Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A guide for planning and approaching old age and the problems that can occur as each person gets older.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393316513
Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A guide for planning and approaching old age and the problems that can occur as each person gets older.
Of wisdome, etc
Author: Pierre Charron
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Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Plato, and the other Companions of Sokrates, etc
Author: George GROTE
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Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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A Key to the German Language, etc
Author: Anthony BRUMEK
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Waverly Novels: Highland widow. Two drovers, etc
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Cato: Or, an Essay on Old-age, Etc. [Translated by William Melmoth.]
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old age
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Old age
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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