Treasury of the Art of Living

by Sydney S. Greenberg and Sidney (editor) Greenberg

Book Overview

""A Treasury Of The Art Of Living"" by Sidney Greenberg is a collection of inspirational and motivational quotes, stories, and anecdotes aimed at helping readers live a more fulfilling and meaningful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879801689
• ISBN13: 9780879801687
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Wilshire Book Company
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Wisdom of the world aimed at helping us live better lives

Rabbi Sidney Greenberg was a distinguished congregational Rabbi. He was also a skilled writer and anthologist. In this collection which has a forward by Harry Golden he ranges far and wide to bring wisdom on various aspects of 'The Art of Living' His chapters are: 1) The Art of Living 2)The Art of Living Happily 3) The Art of Living with the Highest 4)The Art of Living at our Best 5) The Art of Living with Ourselves 6) The Art of Living with our Families 7) The Art of Living with our fellow man 8) The Art of Living with our Heritage 9) The Art of Living with Democracy 10)The Art of Living when Life is Difficult 11)The Art of Living with Faith. Every chapter has gems of its own. I will cite a few just to give a taste of the book. Here is a citation for the baby- boomer generation. "It's not how old you are, but how you are old. " Marie Dressler Here's Einstein on living a worthwhile life. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." Here is Confucius on 'wise remembering' "Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses." Here is William Ralph Inge on happy people. "The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so." Here is Churchill on the goals of life. "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. Here is Moses Mendelssohn's creed for life. "To love the beautiful, to desire the good, to do the best." Here is Coleridge on our dealing with our own fate. "It often amuses me to hear men impute all their misfortunes to fate, luck or destiny, whilst their successes or good fortune they ascribe to their own sagacity, cleverness or penetration." Here is Samuel Johnson on the 'greatness of little things.' "There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man.It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible." A Yiddish proverb on the importance of friends. "Friends are needed for both joy and for sorrow." And here is a piece of advice I frequently do not follow. "Never read any book that is not a year old. " Emerson And here is a person whose name I have never encountered before, Leon Gutterman on the value of books. "Without the love of books the richest man is poor; but endowed with this treasure of treasures, the poorest man is rich. He has wealth which no power can diminish; riches whcih are always increasing; possessions which the more he scatters the more they accumulate; friends which never desert him and pleasures which never die." This is an anthology I hope to be looking into from time to time for a long time to come.

Words to Live By

A Treasury of the Art of Living is one of those rare finds of literary compilation. Some of the ages finest thinkers have their thoughts immortalized among these pages. Eleven chapters and 86 different categories give inspiration and insight to our lives. Everyone should own a copy of this book. Simply outstanding.