Poems & prayers

Oscar-Preisträger Matthew McConaughey über Mut, Scheitern und das Glück, weiterzugehenWas, wenn das Ziel nicht zählt, sondern der Mut, immer wieder neu zu starten? Ein Buch, das zeigt, wie man mit Leichtigkeit und Humor durchs Leben stolpert - und dabei wächst.'Greenlights' ist mehr als eine Autobiographie - es ist ein ehrlicher Blick hinter die Kulissen eines bewegten Lebens. Matthew McConaughey nimmt uns mit auf seine Reise voller Höhen und Tiefen, überraschender Wendungen und mutiger Entscheidungen. Offen und humorvoll teilt er, was ihn geprägt hat, und lädt dazu ein, das eigene Leben mit neuen Augen zu sehen. Für alle, die sich nach echten Geschichten und frischem Mut sehnen. Wer Inspiration sucht, findet sie hier: Ein einzigartiger Mix aus Abenteuer, Lebensweisheit und Humor. Für alle, die sich trauen, das Leben mit offenen Armen zu empfangen.'Greenlights ist ein Ratgeber, der sich als Autobiographie getarnt hat. Wie wird man widerstandsfähig, um mit den Wunden klar zu kommen, die einem das Leben verpasst hat? Um diese Frage kreist das Buch.' DER SPIEGEL'McConaughey hat sein Leben zu Literatur gemacht.' ARD titel - thesen - temperamente

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. <BR><BR>My prayers are my poems are my prayers.<BR><BR>I've always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.<BR><BR>A prescriptionist at heart, I've always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.<BR><BR>I've been finding that tougher to do lately. It's more than hard to know what to believe in; it's hard to believe.<BR><BR>But I don't want to quit believing, and I don't want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential.<BR><BR>I think it's time for us to flip the script on what's historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality.<BR><BR>Let's sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason.<BR><BR>Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let's go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.

From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.<BR><BR>I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.<BR><BR>Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'<BR><BR>So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.<BR><BR>Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.<BR><BR>It's a love letter. To life.<BR><BR>It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.<BR><BR>Good luck.

The debut picture book by Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey<BR><BR>Just because I’m in the race,<BR>doesn’t mean I’m fully ready.<BR>Just because I’m shaking,<BR>doesn’t mean that I’m not steady.<BR><BR>Have you ever felt worried and excited at the same time?<BR><BR>Have you ever had your feelings hurt but forgiven someone anyway?<BR><BR>Have you ever thought there was more than one right answer to a question?<BR><BR>That’s because contradictions are all around us. And they make us who we are.<BR><BR>Filled with his trademark humor and wisdom, Academy Award–winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey has crafted a soulful and irreverent collection of life lessons that empowers readers, big and small, to celebrate how we are all full of possibility.<BR><BR>Why? Just because.

Das erste Bilderbuch des Oscar-prämierten Schauspielers und New York Times Bestsellerautors Matthew McConaughey. Hast du dich jemals gleichzeitig besorgt und aufgeregt gefühlt? Wurden deine Gefühle jemals verletzt und trotzdem hast du dann wieder vergeben? Hast du jemals gedacht, dass es auf eine Frage mehr als eine richtige Antwort gibt? Das liegt daran, dass es überall um uns herum und in uns Widersprüche gibt. Und sie machen uns zu dem, was wir sind. Sie geben uns Kraft. Darum lasst uns feiern, dass wir alle voller Möglichkeiten sind. Ein Buch, das herrlich dazu geeignet ist, mit Kindern über sich selbst und das Leben ins Gespräch zu kommen. Das Buch soll bewusst machen, - dass deine Fehler dich nicht definieren - dass die Meinung andere Menschen über dich nicht du bist - dass du nicht perfekt sein musst - dass du Entscheidungen immer wieder neu treffen kannst - dass du dich ständig weiterentwickelst - dass du deine Meinung ändern kannst Mit seinem typischen Humor und seiner Weisheit hat der Oscar-prämierte Schauspieler und Bestsellerautor der New York Times, Matthew McConaughey, eine gefühlvolle und freche Sammlung von Lektionen fürs Leben zusammengestellt, die große und kleine Leser dazu befähigt, zu feiern, dass wir alle voller Möglichkeiten stecken.Warum? Nur weil ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* - MILLIONS OF COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE<BR><BR>Gloriously bonkers - Guardian, Best Autobiographies and Memoirs of 2020<BR><BR>A rollicking, contemplative trip - Financial Times<BR><BR>From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.<BR><BR>I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.<BR><BR>Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.'<BR><BR>So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.<BR><BR>Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.<BR><BR>It's a love letter. To life.<BR><BR>It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.<BR><BR>Good luck.<BR><BR><BR>*March 2020

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Academy Award–winning actor and author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. <BR><BR>My prayers are my poems are my prayers.<BR><BR>I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.<BR><BR>A prescriptionist at heart, I’ve always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.<BR><BR>I’ve been finding that tougher to do lately. It’s more than hard to know what to believe in; it’s hard to believe.<BR><BR>But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you, myself, our potential.<BR><BR>I think it’s time for us to flip the script on what’s historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality.<BR><BR>Let’s sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason.<BR><BR>Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let’s go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.<BR><BR>“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today<BR><BR>“McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck<BR><BR>I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.<BR> <BR>Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”<BR> <BR>So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.<BR> <BR>Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.<BR> <BR>It’s a love letter. To life.<BR> <BR>It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.<BR> <BR>Good luck.<BR><BR>The short dust jacket included with this hardcover edition is an intentional design choice.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE • Now in paperback with exclusive new content!<BR><BR>The life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.<BR><BR>“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today<BR><BR>“McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck<BR><BR>I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.<BR> <BR>Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”<BR> <BR>So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.<BR> <BR>Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.<BR> <BR>It’s a love letter. To life.<BR> <BR>It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.<BR> <BR>Good luck.

Greenlights. Vpervye na russkom odno iz glavnyh knizhnyh sobytij 2020 goda, «Zelenyj svet» znamenitogo Mjett'ju Makkonahi (laureat «Oskara» za glavnuju muzhskuju rol' v fil'me «Dallasskij klub pokupatelej», Rast Koul v seriale «Nastojashhij detektiv», Mikki Pirson v «Dzhentl'menah» Gaja Richchi) otchasti illjustrirovannaja avtobiografija, otchasti uchebnik zhizni. Stav na rubezhe vekov zvezdoj romanticheskih komedij, Makkonahi reshil perelomit' sud'bu i realizovat'sja kak ser'eznyj dramaticheskij akter. On rasskazyvaet o tom, chego emu stoilo jeto reshenie i drugie sud'bonosnye reshenija v ego zhizni: uehat' posle shkoly na god v Avstraliju, smenit' juridicheskij fakul'tet na institut kinematografii, tri goda prozhit' na kolesah, puteshestvuja ot odnoj s#emochnoj ploshhadki k drugoj na avtotrejlere v kompanii dvornjagi po klichke Miss Had, i glavnoe zasluzhit' uvazhenie otca ... Itak, slovo avtoru: «Tridcat' pjat' let ja osmyslival, vspominal, raspoznaval, sobiral i zapisyval to, chto menja voshishhalo ili pomogalo mne na zhiznennom puti. Kak byt' chestnym. Kak izbezhat' stressa. Kak radovat'sja zhizni. Kak ne obizhat' ljudej. Kak ne obizhat'sja samomu. Kak byt' horoshim. Kak dobivat'sja zhelaemogo. Kak obresti smysl zhizni. Kak byt' soboj».

El debut infantil del actor ganador del Óscar y autor best seller de The New York Times Matthew McConaughey. Un álbum ilustrado que invita a los lectores de todas las edades a celebrar las posibilidades que habitan en nosotros y que nos hacen únicos y especiales. 'Que esté en la línea de salida no quiere decir que esté lista para empezar.Que todo el cuerpo me tiemble no quiere decir que vaya a fracasar'. ¿Alguna vez te has preocupado y emocionado al mismo tiempo? ¿O te han hecho sentir mal pero has sido capaz de perdonar? ¿Alguna vez has pensado si hay más de una respuesta correcta a una pregunta? Eso es porque la vida está llena de contrastes, diferencias y contradicciones. Y son estas las que nos hacen ser quien somos. Con el humor y la sabiduría que lo caracterizan, Matthew McConaughey, actor ganador de un Óscar y autor best seller y número 1 de The New York Times, ofrece una colección de lecciones vitales fresca, divertida y conmovedora que invita a los lectores de todas las edades a celebrar las posibilidades que habitan en nosotros. ¿Por qué? Porque TODO PUEDE SER Qué encontrarás en este libro:- Un cuento ideal para iniciar conversaciones con los lectores más pequeños sobre quiénes son y la vida.- Un mensaje universal e inspirador con el que conectarán lectores de todas las edades. - Un texto conmovedor, divertido y rimado que encantará a los más pequeños - Ilustraciones preciosas de Renée Kurilla