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

by Livingston, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780738212494
• ISBN10: 0738212490
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780786726530
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-07
• Publisher: Balance
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Summary

Physician and psychiatrist Livingston follows up on his "Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart" with this compendium of useful humanistic advice for getting through life with grace and a sense of joy.

Author Biography

Gordon Livingston, M.D., a graduate of West Point and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, has been a physician since 1967. He is a psychiatrist and writer who contributes frequently to the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, and Reader’s Digest. Awarded the Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam, he is the author of two other books, And Never Stop Dancing and Only Spring: On Mourning the Death of My Son. He lives and works in Columbia, Maryland.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Paradox governs our lives	p. 1
Much of what we think we know is untrue	p. 9
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves	p. 13
Marriage ruins a lot of good relationships	p. 19
It is easier to be angry than sad	p. 25
Action is eloquence	p. 31
It is better to be spent than saved	p. 36
If you have anything to say, say it now, for the eternal silence is at hand	p. 42
We are defined by what we fear	p. 47
The best stepparents do the least parenting	p. 54
One of life's most difficult tasks is to see ourselves as others see us	p. 59
Moral certainty is the reward of the true believer	p. 64
Relinquish dignity last	p. 71
Though much is taken, much abides	p. 75
The important questions are unanswerable	p. 83
Attachment is the source of all suffering	p. 88
We all live downstream	p. 99
You can change who you are without rejecting who you were	p. 105
It is a sense of meaning that nourishes the soul	p. 110
We were not meant to live alone	p. 114
The primary difference between intelligence and stupidity is that there are limits to intelligence	p. 120
The ears are the primary organs of seduction	p. 126
No one ever died of insomnia	p. 134
Heroism is in the eye of the beholder	p. 141
We are all capable of anything	p. 147
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge	p. 150
Happiness requires an ability to tolerate uncertainty	p. 156
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward	p. 163
Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty	p. 169
Most people die with their music still inside them	p. 173
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