Relationship Wisdom

Do you find yourself confronted with the nagging feeling that you should be doing more, making better decisions, being a better person, and wanting more out of your life? Once upon a time in Ancient China, there was a farmer with a brand-new horse. One day, his horse ran away. His neighbors gathered around him and said “It is so unfortunate for your horse to run away.”

An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has held numerous impressive titles over the course of his incomparable career. Now, for the first time, with his trademark wisdom and philosophical generosity, he turns his attention to his most important role yet: grandparent. In Grand, Johnson shares stories from his life with his six-year-old grandson, Emery, weaving in advice and life lessons that stand the test of time.

Life lessons from New York Times best-selling author and Today show personality Al Roker and his wife, globetrotting ABC news journalist Deborah Roberts. Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have 16 Emmy Awards between them. They have covered everything from the Olympics and the Gulf War to natural disasters and the AIDS crisis in Africa. Now these two married journalists and parents have collaborated on the most personal and important “story” of their lives.

Author Hannibal Johnson flawlessly captures the collective wisdom passed from generation to generation with a beguiling blend of wit, wisdom, and insight. Following each of the heartwarming nostalgic narratives are the most quotable of quotes - the very words that echo through the memories of our childhoods. An imaginative blend of Mama's brand of comforting common sense and her gentle ethical and moral lessons, Mama Used to Say is full of insights as illuminating as they are honest.

There's a dark tunnel, a bright light at the end. You have already seen it several times, but you have never reached the exit. Why? None has ever told you how. That's the tunnel of life; and you are into it. Not being able to be happy is one of the inner plagues of our time. It's what makes it impossible to taste life. With The Transformation You Can, you can discover how to transform your life with seven simple rules to put into practice. These are rules of wisdom and change that everyone can apply in their own life, to grow inwardly, and increase their awareness.

Would you like to raise Godly children without resorting to rule-centered discipline? Unlike other Christian parenting books that focus on discipline, this book will teach you a far more effective method: A grace-motivated approach that begins with the glorious truth of God’s grace and love for your children.

Sweet Potato Pie for the Spirit, Soul & Psyche is a book of wisdom, abundance, empowerment, prosperity, and success. Its purpose is to help individuals move forward in life in positive ways through increased self-improvement, self-development, self-motivation, self-reflection, self-actualization, self-determination, self-transformation and self-enhancement.

Do you feel like time is passing you by? Are you dreaming of living a more fulfilling life? Does your mind desire something greater? In Burdens of a Dream: 33 Actionable Nuggets of Wisdom for the Creative Entrepreneur, author Craig M. Chavis Jr. guides listeners through the ups and downs of his journey of entrepreneurship through 33 powerful life lessons.

Brian Montgomery loved the life he lived as the son of Chuck and Vivian Alexander Montgomery. As the general manager of his family’s Alex-Mont Ranches in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Mitchell County, Maryland, and Summer County, South Carolina, his days were what he wanted them to be. He wished for nothing and, although he didn’t know anything about his biological history, he relished the family who adopted him. No, he had everything he wanted - the love of family and friends. Women weren’t kicking him out of their beds, so he was content.

Open your eyes to the meaning of your dreams and take advantage of their incredible power for self-improvement. Find out how to decode and interpret your dreams to reveal how the images, stories and emotions you experience in sleep are deeply connected to your waking life. Learn dream skills that will enable you to train your mind to access your unconscious and open the gateway to self-discovery.

This book discusses the topic of wisdom, its relationship to knowledge, its relative utility in problem-solving, and how a person can gain, retain, and make personal and long-term career and personal-life use of gained wisdom.

Fatherhood+ delivers 365 days of life changing advice, wisdom, and motivational notes to serve as inspiration and conversation starters with children, fathers, mothers, family members, and friends.

We live in a fast-paced world that has come to characterize the 21st century. We are bombarded with constant distractions, and silence has all but vanished from our daily schedule and practice. We are collectively exhausted, but we don’t really realize it. The exhaustion manifests in sicknesses we can’t identify, and if we can, it’s something we can’t pronounce. We batter ourselves against the daily onslaught that has become our lives.

Game of the Gods is an insightful guidebook for mindful living in the modern world. Most of us were not raised to be Buddhist monks nor do we have the luxury of stepping away from our responsibilities and going to an ashram to study meditation and spirituality. This book teaches “the rest of us” how to move towards a more mindful and enlightened way of living despite our daily stresses and obligations. Today’s world can appear rather confusing, uncertain, and sometimes very scary.

As demands on our society expedite, the overall quality of leadership is being impaired. In today's unprecedented environment, conventional leadership cannot take us into the future. We need to find new approaches if we aspire to dramatically increase our supply of self-aware agents of change. It is the design of Open Your Eyes and LEAD to offer us ways to embrace a change in leadership style that will undoubtedly impact us in every aspect of our lives.

Inspirational Ideas: The Most Inspiring Thoughts and Wisdom of the Century is an audiobook that aims at enlightening listeners on how they can live inspired lives. There are so many people who live their whole lives without ever realizing their full potential. All that these people needed was simply some inspiration to empower them. In this audiobook, you will get to learn what empowerment means. You will also get to learn the different definitions of the word inspired. You will also learn in detail what an inspired idea means.

Although millions of westerners practice yoga simply for its health benefits, this multifaceted discipline has far more to offer. In The Jewel of Abundance, author Ellen Grace O’Brian reveals an overlooked aspect of yoga: its powerful techniques for attaining prosperity. Drawing upon the ancient Vedic tradition of Kriya Yoga (the yoga of practice), she shows us how spirituality and earthly success can complement each other, leading to realization of the higher self.

A Collection of Sayings of Mama 'Nem: The Wit and Wisdom of Mama, Muhdear and Othermothers is an intergenerational collection of folk expressions (or sayings) that heralds moral lessons, discipline, wisdom, and love of women (sometimes referred to as village elders), whose sayings and teachings were designed to press into our psyches rich lessons they knew we would need as we came of age and beyond.

I'm so Full of Happy Today is a heartwarming collection of the remarkably observant, funny, and wise things said by children, aged two to 10 years.

There are eight ways to develop our minds in order to liberate ourselves. This audiobook uses these notions of mindfulness to construct a path for you to maneuver through modern society.