Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World
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Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World celebrates the shared principles that unite and enable us to overcome life's challenges together. Jonathan Reckford, the CEO of Habitat for Humanity, has seen time and again the powerful benefits that arise when people from all walks of life work together to help one another. In this uplifting book, he shares true stories of people involved with Habitat as volunteers and future homeowners who embody seven timeless virtues-kindness, community, empowerment, joy, respect, generosity, and service-and shows how we can all practice these to improve the quality of our own lives as well as those around us. A Vietnam veteran finds peace where he was once engaged in war. An impoverished single mother offers her family's time and energy to enrich their neighbors' lives. A Zambian family of nine living in a makeshift tent makes room to shelter even more. A teenager grieving for his mother honors her love and memory by ensuring other people have a place to call home. A former president of the United States leads by example with a determined work ethic that motivates everyone around him to be the best version of themselves. These stories, and many others, illustrate how virtues become values, how cooperation becomes connection, and how even the smallest act of compassion can encourage actions that transform the world around us. Here are tales that will make readers laugh and cry and embrace with passion the calling of our better angels to change the way we take care of ourselves, our families, our communities, and the world.
Reckford, J. (2019). Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World. [United States], St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Reckford, Jonathan. 2019. Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World. [United States], St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Reckford, Jonathan, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World. [United States], St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Reckford, Jonathan. Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change Your Life and the World. [United States], St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019.
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