Jack Canfield - Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul: Heartwarming Stories About People 60 and Over

What People Are Saying About
Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul...

Nourishment for the heart and mind should not end at age sixty. Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul provides inspiration for maintaining a healthy lifestyle throughout the golden years of our lives.

Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
pioneer heart surgeon
president and surgeon-in-chief, Texas Heart Institute

Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul is a collection of inspirational and encouraging stories which are very welcome in our present-day culture. There is so much negativity in what we read and hear every day that an uplifting book of this nature is truly worth reading.

Tom Osborne
former head football coach, University of Nebraska
and author of Faith in the Game

An inspirational collection of heartwarming stories about people over sixty living life fully with purpose and joy. A must-read for people of all ages.

Dr. Helen K. Kerschner
president, The American Association for International Aging
and The Beverly Foundation

The Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul stories gave me so many smiles and laughs. This wonderful book makes us aware that we are not alone and love is the answer.

Jane Powell
actress, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Jesus taught with storiessome parables, some allegories, some just factual accountsbut all short. He knew we could only digest truth, like Chicken Soup, in small servings, but how nourishing!

Pat Boone
entertainer

I think all of the Chicken Soup books have the faith to tell people that their problems are important and that there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.

Ralph Emery
Ralph Emery Television Productions
radio and TV personality and author

Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul is the Golden Rule in book form. Read unto others as you would have them read unto you.

Bil Keane
cartoonist/creator, The Family Circus

Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul is a powerful reminder that the quality of life is determined by ones attitude. A must-read for anyone wishing to enrich their years after sixty!

Ruth Matheson
general director, Leadership Management International, Canada
Canadian Woman Entrepreneur, 1999

A priceless treasury of uplifting stories straight from real life. Kindness, caring and hope will fill the heart of every reader.

Dr. Robert H. Schuller
founding pastor, Crystal Cathedral Ministries

Ah! Can we ever have too much Chicken Soup for souls? I think not. This golden helping heals the soul and warms the spirit.

Karen Ross
producer and host, Chicagos The Karen Ross Show

CHICKEN SOUP
FOR THE
GOLDEN SOUL

Heartwarming Stories About
People 60 and Over

Jack Canfield
Mark Victor Hansen
Paul J. Meyer
Barbara Russell Chesser
Amy Seeger

Backlist, LLC, a unit of

Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC

Cos Cob, CT

www.chickensoup.com

Let me start with my generationwith the grandparents out there.You are our living link to the past. Tell your grandchildren the story ofthe struggles we had, at home and abroad. Of sacrifices freely made forfreedoms sake. And tell them your own story as wellbecause everyAmerican has a story to tell.

President George Bush
State of the Union Address, 1990

Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit andbegin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like amouse from a hole.

Eudora Welty
One Writers Beginnings

Contents

Jo Coudert

Random Acts of Kindness

Anita Cheek Milner

Harriet May Savitz

Diana L. Chapman

W. E. Bill Thorn

John T. Baker

Eddie Ogan

Woody McKay Jr.

Roberta L. Messner

Paul J. Meyer

Audrey Bowie

Tom Landry

Nancy Reagan with William Novak

Erma Bombeck

Stuart Hample and Eric Marshall

Muriel J. Bussman

Arthur Gordon

Marlena Thompson

Lee Pitts

Phyllis S. Heinel

Dan Clark

Renae Pick

Evelyn Marder Levin

Mickey Mann Johnson

Retold by Max Lucado

Roberta L. Messner

Sidney B. Simon

Nardi Reeder Campion

Tom Harken

Dudley Callison

Florence Littauer

Mildred Cohn

Barbara Russell Chesser

Amy Seeger

Robert Darden

Eileen Lawrence

Robertson McQuilkin

Louise R. Hamm

Del Chesser

Amy Seeger

Evelyn Gibb

John C. Bonser

Vicki Marsh Kabat

Nita Sue Kent

Retold by Bill Floyd

Ruth Stafford Peale

Bettie B. Youngs

Sharon Whitley Larsen

Helen WeathersAs told to Diana L. Chapman

Retold by Barbara Johnson

Michael T. Smith with Kelley Smith

Amy Seeger

Hartley F. Dailey

Agnes Moench

Kristina Cliff-Evans

Betsy Hall Hutchinson

Maureen S. Pusch

Pete Seeger

Margaret E. Mack

Scot Thurman

Penny Porter

Naomi Jones

Barbara Jo Reams Russell

Roberta L. Messner

LeAnn Thieman

Marie Bunce

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen,Paul J. Meyer, Barbara Russell Chesser and Amy Seeger

Leon J. Rawitz

Paul Stripling

Doris Dillard Edwards

Dan Miller

Sister Clarice LolichAs told to Diana L. Chapman