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14,000 Things to Be Happy About.: Newly Revised and Updated
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Get happy…
A simple book with a simple premise — catalog awesome ideas, objects & events — is proof that the simplest things in life make for the best reasons to smile.
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Something to be happy about: This mesmerizing bestseller is revised and updated. Originally published 25 years ago (happy anniversary!) from a list that Barbara Ann Kipfer started making as a child, it’s the book that marries obsession with happiness. And it now has 4,000 fresh and more current reasons to be happy:
Rabbit tracks in the snow.
Kiteboarding and kitesurfing.
Caramel gelato.
Scoring super-high on a Scrabble turn.
Babies burping.
Summer storms.
White cupcakes with multicolored sprinkles.
Big red barns.
20 minutes all to yourself.
No opinions, no explanations, no asides, no footnotes, editorializing, or proselytizing. Just the simple premise of a list of things that make us smile. With its chunky shape, striking black-and-white cover, and 100 whimsical illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan, the new 14,000 Things is an irresistible catalog of good thoughts completely updated to reflect today’s world—and an uplifting gift for people of all moods and all ages.
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14,000 Things to Be Happy About.: Newly Revised and Updated
Editor's Note
Get happy…
A simple book with a simple premise — catalog awesome ideas, objects & events — is proof that the simplest things in life make for the best reasons to smile.
Description
Something to be happy about: This mesmerizing bestseller is revised and updated. Originally published 25 years ago (happy anniversary!) from a list that Barbara Ann Kipfer started making as a child, it’s the book that marries obsession with happiness. And it now has 4,000 fresh and more current reasons to be happy:
Rabbit tracks in the snow.
Kiteboarding and kitesurfing.
Caramel gelato.
Scoring super-high on a Scrabble turn.
Babies burping.
Summer storms.
White cupcakes with multicolored sprinkles.
Big red barns.
20 minutes all to yourself.
No opinions, no explanations, no asides, no footnotes, editorializing, or proselytizing. Just the simple premise of a list of things that make us smile. With its chunky shape, striking black-and-white cover, and 100 whimsical illustrations by Pierre Le-Tan, the new 14,000 Things is an irresistible catalog of good thoughts completely updated to reflect today’s world—and an uplifting gift for people of all moods and all ages.
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This book is phenomenal! It serves as my go-to for bad days.
I just open to a random page in the book and read the options listed.
I use the book to plan out my methods to drag myself out of my own personal misery, and it works so very well!
I literally use this book every morning to help Prime me against the hardships of reality.
Rating: 5I just open to a random page in the book and read the options listed.
I use the book to plan out my methods to drag myself out of my own personal misery, and it works so very well!
I literally use this book every morning to help Prime me against the hardships of reality.
Interesting idea :). I will create my own very soon
Rating: 5
love it
Rating: 5I thought this book would make me happy, but it really annoyed me. The list includes things I don't have but I desperately want. Lots of food. And many things I couldn't care less about. This book just didn't do it for me.
Rating: 2♡
Rating: 4very nice idea of putting one thoughts together or memories also. but now I am 50 years old, so all is becoming too dim in the memory but still I can try on my lovely baby boy who is so charming that I shall take the idea n write a daily dairy on him.
thankx for the lovely idea.
Nuzhet from Pakistan
Rating: 5thankx for the lovely idea.
Nuzhet from Pakistan
:) ♡
Rating: 4
Totally Inane. Pollyanna writes a book. People like this annoy me so much in everyday life already, must they also write irritating books?
Rating: 1Cute. Some things confuse me a bit as to why someone would be happy about them, but cute nonetheless.
Rating: 3I wish I hadn't released the copy I had bought just before college. It was one of the rare books where I had actually written in the margins.
Rating: 3This book has sentimental value for me, but I'd love it even if it didn't. It is exactly what it says: a list of 14,000 to be happy about. I enjoy reading from random pages every now and again. Probably a good book for a gift, or a treat for oneself.
Rating: 5Brilliant but simple concept. I haven't pulled this book off the shelf in years, but I have many fond memories of reading random pages while I was courting my wife in college. To this day I still list random things to be happy about at the bottom of emails and letters that I send her.
Rating: 5