Personal Growth

Studies in Pessimism
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amount of pain that abounds everywhere in the world, and originates in needs and necessities inseparable

What Is the Quarterlife Crisis?
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
The quarterlife crisis and the midlife crisis stem from the same basic problem, but the resulting panic couldn't be more opposite. At their cores, both the quarterlife crisis and the midlife crisis are about a major life change.

Transform Yourself Through Thinking
The Thinker's Way
by John Chaffee, Ph.D.
Do you feel that you have not yet fulfilled your potential? Have internal doubts obscured a sense of meaning and purpose you once had? Do you feel trapped in patterns that you cannot break- in your career, your relationships, your life?

100 Essential Questions for Tapping into Your Inner Wisdom
The Hard Questions for an Authentic Life
by Susan Piver
The search for authenticity is among our deepest and most natural inclinations. Anyone can live an authentic life. Living authentically doesn't require you to secure your dream job, get in perfect shape, or find true love.

Who Controls Your Mind?
by Remez Sasson
Few people are aware of the thoughts that pass through their minds. Thinking is performed like a habit in an automatic manner. If the thoughts are positive then it is all right but if they are negative, they may cause trouble. The mind is like small child

Understanding the Procrastination-Projection Syndrome
The Tomorrow Trap
by Karen E. Peterson, Ph.D.
The Procrastination-Protection Syndrome explains why we: know the basic principles of time management but can't bring ourselves to use them, often procrastinate on tasks that require solitude, avoid making decisions that are extremely important

Getting Results From Self Improvement Techniques
by Remez Sasson
Do you sometimes hear yourself or other people say: I have tried positive thinking, and I have repeated affirmations, I have meditated and yet nothing happened? The fact is that few people use self-improvement or positive thinking techniques correctly

The Pleasure of All Five Senses
Seven Sins for a Life Worth Living
by Roger Housden
We can see farther today than any of our forefathers could dream of seeing. We can see farther than the keenest cheetah or lynx. We can look over the horizon, around the world, up into space, down into our intestines digesting dinner.

What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
The Comfort Trap: or What If You're Riding a Dead Horse?
by Judith Sills, Ph.D.
Some years ago, back at the dawn of Prozac, I met weekly with a woman who was excruciatingly single and full of self-recrimination for it. Hers is a familiar unhappy story.

From Whence We Came
The Ancestral Mind: Reclaim the Power
by Gregg Jacobs, Ph.D.
If you look at all the things money can buy today, there's no question that we're better off than any generation in history. In the industrialized world, we're blessed with an abundance of choice in every aspect of life.

Karma : It Is All About Attitude!
by Joseph Ghabi
Why do we really need the experiences that we have to deal with in our day-to-day life? Does anyone know who can answer my question? Somehow, at heart I do know and understand the answer to this question. However, I have no discipline to do something abou

The First Invitation: Feel Everything
Setting Your Heart on Fire : Seven Invitations to Liberate Your Life
by Raphael Cushnir
To love is to open. To love fully is to open wide. When we're wide open, love rushes toward us and emanates from us. We recognize it as the essence of our existence. Naturally, without effort, the illusion of separation vanishes.

Leaving the Sure Behind
by Crystal Woods
I'm realising more and more these days there is a huge gap (chasm, really) between knowing a thing and living that knowledge. You know how it is - you read heaps of self-improvement books, you go to all the seminars and listen to people saying look

Shopping as Self-Creation
Attention Shoppers! : The Woman's Guide to Enlightenment Through Shopping
by Eve Eliot
All of us long to have an awareness of our true nature, our emotional fingerprints. Sometimes, there is tremendous fear attached to the process of becoming aware, but it beckons compellingly all the same.

Doug Fishbone: Lots of Bananas
The Banana Sculptor, the Purple Lady, and the All-Night Swimmer
by Susan Sheehan, Howard Means
As a youngster in Queens, New York, Doug Fishbone assumed he would grow up to be a doctor 'because that was in the rhythm of the household and my father was a surgeon.' One night, back when M*A*S*H was a hit television show, he was awakened by a bad dream

Well Endowed
Skipping Towards Gomorrah
by Dan Savage
In Skipping Towards Gomorrah, Dan Savage eviscerates the right-wing conservatives as he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits.

Drawn To What I Feared The Most
Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
by Eve Ensler
Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the deceptive notion of vigilant 'protection.'

Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness
by John Mather Austin
In this language St. Paul asserts a principle which should commend itself to the mature consideration of every youthful mind. If the young would have their career honorable and prosperous - if they would enjoy the respect and confidence of community

Ethics
by Aristotle
Every art, and every science reduced to a teachable form, and in like manner every action and moral choice, aims, it is thought, at some good: for which reason a common and by no means a bad description of the Chief Good is, 'that which all things aim at.

Poise: How to Attain It
by D. Starke
Lack of poise has always been an obstacle to those who are imbued with the desire to succeed. In every age the awkwardness born of timidity has served to keep back those who suffered from it, but this defect has never been so great a drawback