Do you struggle in your relationships? Do your relationships have more hurt than happiness, and you're not sure why? Do you want to find more happiness in your life as a whole? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, From Hurt to Happiness is for you.

When you meet author Mike Van today, you would never imagine the pain he experienced in his past. From fleeing a war-ravaged country as a boy, to years of being bullied and finding himself on the brink of suicide at nineteen, to overcoming the lingering depression that plagued him from childhood.

With heart-wrenching candor, Van shares his many challenges and the path he found to ultimately overcome them. He takes us inside his personal road to rebuilding his inner strength, his identity, and his life. These are trials we all may have experienced in one way or another.

Through relaying his personal strife, Van shares the many pitfalls of relationships and the secrets to their success. In From Hurt to Happiness, he lays out the twenty-five secrets he's learned about connecting with people, how to get others to willingly comply with our needs, and why it can be a struggle being understood and accepted. Van gives readers the secrets that help replace the hurt in our lives and relationships so that happiness and joy can flourish.

In From Hurt to Happiness, walk through Mike Van's path to transformation and joy, and find answers to improving your own relationships—and your life.

Mike Van lives in Sydney, Australia. He hopes to see personal development such as conflict resolution taught in schools and to young adults, equipping our children and future leaders with the necessary tools to make positive differences for generations to come.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was a leading German metaphysician of the 19th century, whose influence extended far beyond the hermetic world of philosophy. His adherents ranged from Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche to Leo Tolstoy and Thomas Mann. Schopenhauer rejected the idealism of his contemporaries and embraced a practical variety of materialism. He discarded traditional philosophic jargon for a brisk, compelling style, using direct terms to express the metaphysics of the will.

In The Wisdom of Life, an essay from his final work, Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), Schopenhauer advocates for individual strength of will and independent, reasoned deliberation over acting on irrational impulses. He examines how life can be arranged to derive the highest degree of pleasure and success, offering guidelines for achieving a full and rich manner of living. Schopenhauer advises that even a life well-lived must always aspire to grander heights. This work abounds in subjects of enduring relevance and is highly readable in an excellent translation.