Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 suggestions, observations, and reminders on how to live a happy and rewarding life [Paperback]

H. Jackson Brown Jr. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1991

Read years ago that it was not the responsibility of parents to pave the road for their children, but to provide a road map. That's how I hoped he or she would use these mind and heart reflections.

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About the Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. is a New York Times number-one-best-selling author who lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

He is the author of Life's Little Instruction Book (volumes I, II, and III), Live and Learn, and Pass It On (volumes I, II, and III), When You Lick a Slug Your Tongue Goes Numb, The Little Book of Christmas Joys, with Rosemary Brown and Kathy Peel, and with Robyn Spizman, A Hero in Every Heart. He has also written fourteen Life's Little Treasure Books and two Kids' Little Treasure Books. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press; First Edition edition (May 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558531025
• ISBN-13: 978-1558531024
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 4.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,303,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Any Book With A Tartan Cover Can't Be Bad..., December 30, 2005

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Notnadia (Currently upstairs.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life (Paperback)

Advice of both the common sense variety and the kind based on bitter experience is offered here in this pocket-sized volume. Non-controversial, cutesy-but-true helpful hints make up the bulk of its alleged 511 suggestions.

A random sampling of these spattered tidbits includes:

Learn to listen. Advice sometimes knocks very softly.

Be courteous to everyone.

Read to your children.

Be enthusiastic about the success of others.

Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.

Keep secrets.

Never criticize the person who signs your paycheck.

Lie on your back and look at the stars.

And one I especially liked:

Evaluate yourself by your own standards, not by someone else's.

So as you can see, these are nice little gems of wisdom. Not Confucius-level material, perhaps, but I doubt there's anyone who can't find something to grin over, agree with, or be improved by, all for less than ten bucks.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great pick me up for a blue day!, July 11, 2003

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Eric P. Medlock (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life (Paperback)

This book is just wonderful for making you feel warm and fuzzy all over about how simple life could be if only you simplified and got back to the basics. The instructions are useful and will make you a better person. This is better then 99% of the motivational and self-help books out there. Life a simple and honorable life, and this book will help.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WHAT A NIFTY LITTLE BOOK - DELIGHTFUL!, October 13, 2007

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D. Blankenship (The Ozarks) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life's Little Instruction Book: 511 suggestions, observations, and reminders on how to live a happy and rewarding life (Paperback)

There are literally dozens of these little books, or little books like this one around today. You can seem them on many a desk of offices across the country. Most of them are pretty good at best, and rather mundane at worse. This one though is quite a few notches above most of the pack. H. Jackson Brown Jr. has given us over 500 (511 to be exact), short bits of wisdom in the form of little one liners. I've read them all and to be frank, actually learned much from most of them and was reminded of a lot of things that have been pushed to the back of my mind over the years. These are little thoughts and zaps of wisdom that simply make your life more pleasing to live and most of them make you smile and feel a bit better. Little things like "floss your teeth everyday," sort of reminds me of my dad. Little things, yes, but don't all the little things all add up in our lives to make a whole? This is a great gift or a great buy for yourself. You will be richer for having read it.