Have you ever read a book that has inspired you to change your life?

Question

What was the title of it,and in why did it make you want to change yourself?

Answer 1

The Power Of One-Bryce Courtenay encouraged me to work on my self confidence allowing me to achieve far more than I ever thought possible.

The Color Purple-Alice Walker pretty much the same reasons as above.

Answer 2

Yes I have read a book that has inspired me to be a better person. Many of them in fact. Jean M. Auels Clan of the Cave Bear because her character Ayla is such a strong woman. Lucia St Clair Robinsons Ride the Wind about proud Native American people who faught to survive in a changing world. Twilight Eyes by Dean R. Koontz about a man who can see the truth and fights against overwhelming odds to make the world a better place. These are all books with characters who have strong hearts and great will to survive and are therefore inspireing.

Answer 3

Anthem by Ayn Rand. It's about being an individual, not afraid to be different from the others, not afraid to shine out among others, having strength and courage to live life the way you want to without the approval of others. I felt that the way I feel and see things aren't wrong just because the sheeple around me don't agree. It's anti-establishment, but not in an anarchy way. (Love the Sex Pistols!)

Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen. I'm not a religious fanatic, but this book reminded me that God loves me and helps me each and every day even if I don't realize it. It reminded me not to take life for granted and to be a good person because that's what I want to do and becuase I have the capability to do so.

Answer 4

I think the books have read inspired changes in my being that have made me into who i am today. I couldn't say one particular book completely altered the way i lived my life, but they have become a part of me.

here are some books and what i took from them (not everything of course but mainly):

The Five People You Meet in Heaven- taught me to be grateful
1984- sex is not that big of a deal
The Amber Spyglass - Love is real no matter what world you're in.
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes - Your actions affect other people. sometimes deeply.

Answer 5

Rumer and Jon Godden's "2 decrease than the Indian sunlight". It wasn't lots the subject, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that I enjoyed that. It grow to be that this e book, which I examine on the age of 9, taught me that there grow to be this style of ingredient as "form" in writing, that it must be unique, effective, even efficient. It grow to be the 1st e book that made me pay interest to the way human beings write and likewise to the must be precise so as to place across a feeling, a theory, an journey, to compliment words and phraseology with care. I on no account examine a e book a similar way lower back. i do no longer write fiction, yet I do write non-fiction, and the Goddens' e book nonetheless resonates interior the way I attitude a writing activity.

Answer 6

A child called It,
it was such a sad story but truly moving and after reading it i thought what have i got to moan about absolutely nothing,so now when I'm about to moan about something i think of that poor little boy who did not let life or people drag him down no matter what a true survivor, i try to live life to the full and never judge a book by its cover.

Answer 7

“The Power Is Within You” by Louise Hay. Because it gave me the belief that I can change my life. Than I have the force. If I want it.

And other pleasant and juvenile book was “Momo” by Michael Ende. I do not want to get to be as those "gray men”. (I suppose that the version in English calls them the same, "gray men").

Answer 8

Much like "jacques," I read a book called, "Angela's Ashes," by Frank McCourt, that taught me never, ever, to complain about my life or feel sorry for myself again.

Answer 9

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It got me into studying philosophy

Answer 10

Intelligent Design by Rael