Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues that Will Change Your Life and the World Audiobook (Free)

Inspiring and insightful, Our Better Angels: Seven Simple Virtues That Will Change YOUR DAILY LIFE and the Globe celebrates the shared concepts that unite and enable us to get over life’s problems together.

“When the waters rise, thus do our better angels.”-Leader Jimmy Carter

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. Within this uplifting book, he shares true about Our Better Angels: Seven Basic Virtues that may Change Your Life and the World stories of people involved with Habitat as volunteers and future property owners who embody seven classic 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 aswell as those around us.

A Vietnam veteran finds peace where he was once engaged in war. An impoverished one mother gives her family’s time and energy to enrich their neighbours’ lives. A Zambian family of nine living in a makeshift tent makes space to shelter even more. A teenager grieving for his mother honors her like and memory by ensuring other folks have a location to call home. A former leader of america qualified prospects by example with a established work ethic that motivates everyone around him to become the best edition of themselves.

These stories, and many more, illustrate how virtues become beliefs, how cooperation becomes connection, and how even the tiniest act of compassion can encourage actions that transform the world all around us. Here are stories which will make readers have fun and cry and embrace with interest the calling of our better angels to improve the way we look after ourselves, our households, our communities, and the world.