And Never Stop Dancing: Thirty More True Things You Need to Know Now

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Hachette Books, Oct 20, 2008 - Psychology - 192 pages
In Dr. Gordon Livingston's follow-up to his national bestseller Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, he offers thirty more true things we need to know now. Among the fresh truths he identifies and explores in this book, which has sold more than 50,000 copies in hardcover, are: Paradox governs our lives. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. Marriage ruins a lot of good relationships. We are defined by what we fear. We all live downstream. One of life's most difficult tasks is to see ourselves as others see us. As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. Most people die with their music still inside of them. Dr. Livingston's sterling qualities are in evidence again: a clear and deep understanding of the hidden hypocrisies, desires, evasions, and emotional tumult that course through our lives; an unerring sense of what is important; and his own ability to persevere-to hope-in a world he knows is capable of inflicting unjustifiable and lifelong suffering.

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Relinquish dignity last
Though much is taken much abides
The important questions are unanswerable
Attachment is the source of all suffering
We all live downstream
You can change who you are without rejecting who you were
It is a sense of meaning that nourishes the soul
We were not meant to live alone

Action is eloquence
It is better to be spent than saved
If you have anything to say say it now for the eternal silence
We are defined by what we fear
The best stepparents do the least parenting
One of lifes most difficult tasks is to see ourselves as others
Moral certainty is the reward of the true believer
The primary difference between intelligence and stupidity is that
The ears are the primary organs of seduction
No one ever died of insomnia
Heroism is in the eye of the beholder
We are all capable of anything
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge
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Gordon Livingston, MD, a graduate of West Point and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who was awarded the Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam, was a psychiatrist and writer who contributed frequently to the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Baltimore Sun. His books include Only Spring; Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart; And Never Stop Dancing; How to Love; and The Thing You Think You Cannot Do.

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