An oyster can't produce pearls without first suffering with a grain of sand. Each of the chapters in Pearls of Wisdom gives guidance to readers on how to turn their own grains of sand into pearls. With five New York Times Best-Selling Authors, including Chicken Soup for the Soul's Jack Canfield, Marci Shimoff, Chris and Janet Attwood, plus 25 of the best up and coming self help authors, each chapter contains a fresh idea for a positive life change. With each chapter as diverse as the cast of authors who have come together to create this unique book, there is certain to be an idea to help transform anyone's life. Pearls of Wisdom contains the greatest ideas of today's top self-help authors, combining traditional and new techniques, affirmations, theories, meditations and practices to lead readers from the struggles they deal with in their current situations to a higher, enlightened life; not merely an existence.