How to Love, Gordon Livingston
How to Love, Gordon Livingston
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How to Love
Choosing Well at Every Stage of Life

Author: Gordon Livingston

Narrator: James Jenner

Unabridged: 5 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/27/2009


Synopsis

The internationally best-selling author of Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, Dr. Gordon Livingston here helps readers discover fulfilling happiness. By recognizing and understanding particular character traits in ourselves and others, we can all learn who best to love-and who best to avoid. "As gracefully written as Erich Fromm's classic The Art of Loving, How to Love recognizes the things in love that last, and may alter the way you look at others and yourself."-Boston Globe

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kay

Reading this on and off at the moment. It's got some good advice, and some insightful social commentary, but the tone is quite cynical and jaded. Not a happy la-la book at all! Edit: Read most of this but it was so cynical, whiney and repetitive that I couldn't finish it.......more

Goodreads review by Akhil

My fav quotes: • Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses. Even our capacity for love can betray us; taken to obsessive extremes, it can beget something very like hate. • And given our human fallibility, the most important quality may turn out to be the ability to forgive. • We cannot teach w......more

Dr. Livingston's book is a great guide to love and finding it in your life. His chapters are succinct and pithy, making it a straightforward and highly productive read. I've shown my Amazon review of his book below: 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: 5.0 out of 5 stars Finding The Right......more

Goodreads review by Joel

This book lists and defines the kinds of people you meet in a journey through singlehood that you should avoid and then the ones to seek out. For example, there is a great section reviewing the characteristics of people from mild self absorption through narcissism into a sociopath. I've met them all......more