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Karl Pillemer

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Karl Pillemer, Ph.D., is one of America's foremost gerontologists and family sociologists. He is a professor of human development at Cornell University. He founded the Marriage Advice Project, which surveyed hundreds of older Americans on their advice on love and marriage. He is the author of a number of books, including "30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans," and "30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage." ...more

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	30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans 4.11 avg rating — 2,700 ratings — published 2011 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them 4.12 avg rating — 596 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage 4.05 avg rating — 517 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breuklijnen in de familie: De impact van ruzie, vervreemding en verbroken banden by Karl Pillemer (Goodreads Author), Linda Jansen (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	如果人生有地圖：走過1000位人生專家的生命軌跡，帶你找到更好的自己 by Karl Pillemer (Goodreads Author), 卡爾．皮勒摩 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Resident Assistant's Survival Guide by Karl Pillemer (Goodreads Author), Rhoda Meador, Martin Schumacher 2.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	30 De Lectii De Iubire it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rozlam w rodzinie. Jak uzdrowic relacje z bliskimi 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	CNA Mentoring Made Easy by Karl Pillemer (Goodreads Author), Richard Hoffman, Martin Schumacher 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Parent-child Relations Throughout Life by Karl Pillemer (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kathleen McCartney (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It’s my responsibility to be as happy as I can, right here, today.”
― Karl Pillemer, 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans

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“If you are entering into a permanent relationship based on the intention of change, you are on the wrong track.”
― Karl Pillemer, 30 Lessons for Living: Tried and True Advice from the Wisest Americans

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“The thing of it is, don’t love each other for wealth or money. You have to love each other because you love them. You feel that in your heart. You don’t care if they get old or if they get sick or if they get wrinkles. You don’t care about anything else, but just for them. You love them. And you don’t pretend to love them because of what they give you; you don’t pretend to love them because they’ve got money. You just have to love them because it’s somebody that you’d like to spend the rest of your life with.”
― Karl Pillemer, 30 Lessons for Loving: Advice from the Wisest Americans on Love, Relationships, and Marriage

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“We all dimly feel that our transient historical identity is the only chance in all eternity to be alive as a somebody in a here and a now. We, therefore, dread the possibility, of which we are most aware when deeply young or very old, that at the end we may find that we have lived the wrong life or not really lived at all.”
― Erik Erikson

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“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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