The Secret of Life: Ancient Secrets of Life, Happiness and Peace

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A survey of the best self-help philosophies available combs the classics of the genre for useful advice on how to find love, change a life, find inspiration, and break bad habits. As a man thinketh (1902) / James Allen -- NLP: the new technology of achievement (1994) / Steve Andreas & Charles Faulkner -- Meditations (2nd century) / Marcus Aurelius -- Finding your own North Star: how to claim the life you were meant to live (2001) / Martha Beck -- The Bhagavad-Gita -- The Bible -- Iron John (1990) / Robert Bly -- The consolation of philosophy (6th century) / Boethius -- How Proust can change your life (1997) / Alain de Botton -- Transitions: making dense of life's changes (1982) / William Bridges -- Feeling good: the New Mood therapy (1980) / David D. Burns -- The Power of myth (1987) / Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers -- Don't sweat the small stuff ... and it's all small stuff (1997) / Richard Carlson -- How to win friends and influence people (1936) / Dale Carnegie -- The seven spiritual laws of success (1994) / Deepak Chopra -- The alchemist (1993) / Paulo Coehlo -- The 7 habits of highly effective people (1989) / Stephen Covey -- Flow: the psychology of optimal experience (1991) / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- The art of happiness: a handbook for living (1998) / The Dalai Lama & Howard C. Cutler -- The Dhammapada (Buddha's teachings) -- Real magic: creative miracles in everyday life (1992) / Wayne Dyer -- Self-reliance (1841) / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Women who run with the wolves (1993) / Clarissa Pinkola Estš -- Man's search for meaning (1959) / Viktor Frankl -- Autobiography (1790) / Benjamin Franklin -- Creative visualization (1978) / Shakti Gawain -- Emotional intelligence: why it can matter more than IQ (1995) / Daniel Goleman -- Men are from Mars, women are from Venus (1992) / John Gray -- You can heal your life (1984) / Louise Hay -- The soul's code: in search of character and calling (1996) / James Hillman -- Feel the fear and do it anyway (1987) / Susan Jeffers -- The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1998) / Richard Koch -- Mindfulness: choice and control in everyday life (1989) / Ellen J. Langer -- Tao Te Ching (5th-3rd century BC) / Lao Tzu -- Psycho-cybernetics (1960) / Maxwell Maltz -- Motivation and personality (1954) / Abraham Maslow -- Life strategies: foing what works, doing what matters (1999) / Philip C. McGraw -- Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life (1992) / Thomas Moore -- The power of your subconscious mind (1963) / Joseph Murphy -- The power of positive thinking (1952) / Norman Vincent Peale -- The hero within: six archetypes we live by (1989) / Carol S. Pearson -- The road less traveled (1990) / M. Scott Peck -- Atlas shrugged (1957) / Ayn Rand -- Awaken the giant within (1991) / Anthony Robbins -- The game of life and how to play it (1925) / Anthony Robbins -- Learned optimism (1991) / Martin Seligman -- Self-help (1859) / Samuel Smiles -- The phenomenon of man (1955) / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- Walden (1854) / Henry David Thoreau -- A return to love (1994) / Marianne Williamson.