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14,000 Things to be Happy About.: Revised and Updated edition

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I bought this book when it was entitled "10,000 Things to be Happy About". Just picked it off a shelf in the bookstore one day when my mom was trying to survive her experimental chemo treatments and the rest of us were struggling to cope with her impending loss. That day, this book was like a shaft of sunlight splintering a murky room. It made me remember that there are good things in life no matter what crushing sadness we were experiencing. I'd just pick up the book, open it to any page, and I'd just start reading that wonderful list of happy things. It was like a lifeline to me at times. I've since purchased it as a gift for another person going through the same experience and will be purchasing it again soon to give as a gift once more to someone experiencing their own kind of pain. Sometimes we just need to be reminded that life is still good. To the author, a simple heartfelt thank you from me.

this is fun to browse through periodically - i used to keep it on the coffee table in our livingroom and kids would pick it up and just turn to any page at random - and it really is true that happiness is more about wanting what we have than having what we want - well worth $10 to invest in learning to be happy with what is -

This book is so fun!

It's an easy read that I like to take to the park with my highlighter, and peruse through while the children are climbing on the playground. It's also a good reminder to do things that you've forgotten about but LOVE. This would be a great coffee table book, or a gift to a friend who's already high on life.

Highly recommended.

I purchased this book to hand out during a Thanksgiving Eve worship service at my church. The list of things to be happy about are also things to be thankful for. I like the thoughts of happiness from the very little to the very big. Every joyful part of life is something for which to be thankful and I like the author reminding us of this fact. As a result, we can notice more than we have before and our lives will be richer, more connected to others and the earth, and more at peace. Reading the list of 14,000 things does not have to be read all at one time. You can pick up the book for short preiods of time, smile and think of your own list of things to be happy about. Very uplifting.

To whom it may concern,

We are truly enjoying '14,000 Things to be Happy About'. Just last Sunday, I referenced it during the Sunday Sermon entitled, "What does it take to make you Happy?"

With today's world in such chaos, with wars and runors of wars, nation rising up against nation, children against parents, divorce rates up, even among Christians, it is quite refreshing to find so many things to be happy about!

Thanks Amazon and friends! And do please keep positive books like this coming!

My family recently went through a tragic loss. While this book can not change or erase that lose and can never replace the life that we miss so dearly, it has helped one of the members of my family to appreciate some of the smaller things in life more and really helped her cope with the situation a lot. It is a very simplistic idea, one that anybody could do themselves if they opened up a word processor and started listing things that made them happy, but it is nice to be able to have such a list without literally having to sit at a word processor for however long it takes to type out FOURTEEN THOUSAND (14,000) of them their self! It is a nice, light read that you can skip around through and read over a long time to help raise your spirits a little bit.

Excellent present idea if you know somebody who is struggling with some deep, heavy, difficult things in life.

I wasnt looking for this book, I happened to found the picture of the cover by mistake when going thru the web, I started reading a couple of days ago, Havent finished reading it, but have read up to 100 pages and I absolutley love it!! Totally recommend it.

A lot of the things I didn't think were cause to be happy about. Wouldn't recommend the book to anyone.

Book seems OK until you read the arthurs biography and find out she is into lots of different cultures, like Bhudism. I thought this was to be a Christian based book and it definately is not!