Category Archives: life

Mike Dash

In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga (for 40 years, this Russian family was cut off from all human contact, unaware of WWII).

Lykov-family-cabin-Lost-in-the-Taiga-500x363The low door creaked, and the figure of a very old man emerged into the light of day, straight out of a fairy tale. Barefoot. Wearing a patched and repatched shirt made of sacking. He wore trousers of the same material, also in patches, and had an uncombed beard. His hair was disheveled. He looked frightened and was very attentive…. We had to say something, so I began: ‘Greetings, grandfather! We’ve come to visit!’ The old man did not reply immediately…. Finally, we heard a soft, uncertain voice: ‘Well, since you have traveled this far, you might as well come in.’

Agafia buried her father on the mountain slopes … She will not leave. But we must leave her …

Lykov-family-gravesI looked back to wave at Agafia. She was standing by the river break like a statue. She wasn’t crying. She nodded: ‘Go on, go on.’ We went another kilometer and I looked back. She was still standing there.

Kim Culbertson

kimpicsPeople think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true.
Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

What’s painful is that what you had together, all your inside jokes and favorite restaurants and that movie you both loved but everyone else hated—that’s gone, and there’s no replacement for it, you never replicate it, never get to have it ever again…

Ken Murray

How Doctors Die

Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient’s five-year-survival odds–from 5 percent to 15 percent–albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn’t spend much on him.

It’s not a frequent topic of discussion, but doctors die, too. And they don’t die like the rest of us. What’s unusual about them is not how much treatment they get compared to most Americans, but how little. For all the time they spend fending off the deaths of others, they tend to be fairly serene when faced with death themselves. They know exactly what is going to happen, they know the choices, and they generally have access to any sort of medical care they could want. But they go gently.

宮本顕二

デンマークやスウェーデンには、いわゆる寝たきり老人はいないと言われています。イギリス、アメリカ、オーストラリアにも寝たきり老人はほとんどいないそうです。一方、我が国のいわゆる老人病院には、一言も話せない、胃ろうが作られた寝たきりの老人がたくさんいます。
日本の医療水準は決して低くありません。むしろ優れているといっても良いくらいです。
ストックホルム近郊の病院や老人介護施設には、予想通り、寝たきり老人は1人もいませんでした。胃ろうの患者もいませんでした。その理由は、高齢あるいは、がんなどで終末期を迎えたら、口から食べられなくなるのは当たり前で、胃ろうや点滴などの人工栄養で延命を図ることは非倫理的であると、国民みんなが認識しているからでした。逆に、そんなことをするのは老人虐待という考え方さえあるそうです。
ですから日本のように、高齢で口から食べられなくなったからといって胃ろうは作りませんし、点滴もしません。肺炎を起こしても抗生剤の注射もしません。内服投与のみです。したがって両手を拘束する必要もありません。つまり、多くの患者さんは、寝たきりになる前に亡くなっていました。寝たきり老人がいないのは当然でした。
さて、欧米が良いのか、日本が良いのかは、わかりません。しかし、全くものも言えず、関節も固まって寝返りすら打てない、そして、胃ろうを外さないように両手を拘束されている高齢の認知症患者を目の前にすると、人間の尊厳について考えざるを得ません。

世界保健機構

緩和ケアは、生命を脅かす疾患による問題に直面する患者とその家族に対して、痛みやその他の身体的、心理的、社会的な問題、さらに精神的、霊的な問題を早期に発見し、的確な評価と処置を行うことによって、 苦痛を予防したり和らげることで、人生の質、生活の質を改善する行為である。緩和ケアは、

  • 痛みやその他の苦痛な症状から解放する。
  • 生命(人生)を尊重し、死ぬことをごく自然な過程であると認める。
  • 死を早めたり、引き延ばしたりしない。
  • 患者のためにケアの心理的、霊的側面を統合する。
  • 死を迎えるまで患者が人生をできる限り積極的に生きてゆけるように支える
  • 患者の家族が、患者が病気のさなかや死別後に、生活に適応できるように支える
  • 患者と家族のニーズを満たすためにチームアプローチを適用し、必要とあらば死別後の家族らのカウンセリングも行う。
  • 人生の質、生活の質を高めて、病気の過程に良い影響を与える。
  • 病気の早い段階にも適用する。延命を目指すそのほかの治療(例えば化学療法、放射線療法など)を行っている段階でも、それに加えて行ってよいものである。臨床上の様々な困難をより深く理解し管理するために必要な調査を含んでいる。

World Health Organization

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual. Palliative care:

  • provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms;
  • affirms life and regards dying as a normal process;
  • intends neither to hasten or postpone death;
  • integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care;
  • offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible until death;
  • offers a support system to help the family cope during the patients illness and in their own bereavement;
  • uses a team approach to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated;
  • will enhance quality of life, and may also positively influence the course of illness;
  • is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies that are intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.

大川貞男

Ookawa被災地の浜
壊れた漁船
解体作業
漁栄丸
甲板に
操業許可書
大川貞男
あの日
家に戻り
津波にのまれた

nihon_bareda

それが人本来の自然な姿じゃないのでしょうか?食べたくないのであれば、本人の欲求に任せるべきです。
骨折等の怪我などをきっかけに、退院後は痴呆が進行するケースが殆どです。介護の負担も増します。長生きして欲しいと思う気持ちは解りますが、この国の老人医療は医者の意見をまともに聴き過ぎです。
医者は何が何でも長生きさせようとするものです。痛み止めすら、寿命を縮めるからという理由で簡単には打ちません。苦しむ患者の意志など無視しているかの様です。頭が固いのか、金儲けが先きなのか不思議に感じます。
まもなく天寿を終え、己の意思を失いつつある老人に、むりやり長生きさせる必要があるのでしょうか?もう、自然に任せていいのではないでしょうか。痛みや苦痛だけを取り除く事だけを考えてあげてはいかがでしょう。
ご自身も身体を壊されぬよう、お大事に。

安井かずみ


静かな悲しみや、静かなあきらめほど、深くて苦しくて、どうしようもない悲しみはない、と思うけどどうかしら。でも、そんな時、たったひとりでも、それをわかってくれて、静かに明日の勇気を少しずつでも分けてくれる人がいたら、どんなにしあわせだろう。

Charles Bukowski

  • What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death.
  • People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.
  • If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
  • We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t.
  • The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Jack Higgins

Strange how life often swings on small things. Watching TV one evening, seeing the death and carnage in Vietnam on the news, the old man expressed his disapproval.
“Hell, we shouldn’t even be there.”
“But that isn’t the point,” Daniel replied. “We are there.”
“Well, thank God you’re not.”
“So we leave it to the black kids who never stood a chance, to the working-class kids, to Hispanics? They’re getting slaughtered by the thousands.”
“It’s not our business.”
“Well, maybe I should make it mine.”
“Damn fool,” the old man said, a little fearful. “Don’t you do anything stupid, you hear me?”
The following morning, Daniel Quinn presented himself at the downtown Army recruiting office. He began with the infantry, and then joined Airborne as a paratrooper.

V. Yermilov

On December 22, 1849, the tsarist government staged a sadistically brutal and cold-blooded near-execution of 21 members of Petrashevsky’s circle. This was aimed at breaking their will and bringing them to their knees. The condemned were dressed in white shrouds, blindfolded and tied to stakes prior to being shot. The roll of drums resounded through the drill-ground the execution was being staged in, and the condemned were preparing to meet their fate when at the last moment an imperial A.D.C. came galloping into the square with a rescript from the tsar ordering the commutation of the death sentence to penal servitude, and then exile.
Dostoyevsky’s life had been spared, but the sentence had been carried out on the dreams and aspirations of his youth, hopes that died a lingering death during the agony of prison life.

シュテファン・ツヴァイク

(ドストエフスキー、ペテルスブルク、セメノフ広場、1849年12月22日)
あの瞬間の彼自身が
千数百年の昔に十字架につけられた
あの彼であったこと、
そして彼自身もあの彼のように
死の熱い接吻を受けてからは
生を悩みのために愛さなければならないことが解った

兵士らが彼を柱から引きはなした
彼の顔はあおざめて
死人のようだった
つきとばされて
彼はふたたび列の中へ押しもどされた
彼の眼ざしは
異様であり まったく自分の心の底へむけられていた
そして彼のけいれんしてわななくくちびるには
カラマーゾフ的な黄いろい笑いがうかんでいた

週刊ポスト

深刻さを増すシャープの経営危機。グループの社員5万7000人を待ち受けるのは、給与削減か、リストラか、台湾企業による苛烈な支配か、それとも倒産か。
縮小が発表された栃木工場に勤務する30代後半のAさんは深い溜め息をついた。
「地元ではシャープに入れば一生安泰だといわれてきた。描いていた人生設計が完全に狂ってしまいました。工場では約1600人の従業員のうち、AV事業に携わる1500人から希望退職者を募ると聞いています。地元で採用された人間全員がリストラ対象ということらしい。子供はまだ小学生でこれからもっと教育費がかかる。この田舎に再就職先なんてないのに、どうしたらいいのか……」
多くの電機メーカーが何年も前から大規模なリストラを断行していたのを横目に、「勝ち組メーカー」シャープは我が世の春を謳歌していた。液晶パネル、携帯電話端末、太陽電池の3つの主力事業が絶好調だった2007年度、売上高は3兆円を超えた。社員の平均年収は700万円超で、福利厚生も充実――ところが、今年に入って急転直下、極寒の冬に突入する。

Bertrand Russell

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness–that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what–at last–I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

Holstee

This is your life. Do What you love, and do it often. If you don’t like something, change it. If you don’t like your job, quit. If you don’t have enough time, stop watching tv. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love. Stop over analyzing, life is simple. All emotions are beautiful. When you eat, appreciate every last bite. Open your mind, arms, and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences. Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them. Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself. Some oppurtunities only comes once, seize them. Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them so go out and start creating. Life is short. Live your dream and share your passion.

Михаил Булгаков

Единственное, что врожденно людям, – это любовь к самому себе. И цель жизни каждого человека есть счастье! Из каких же элементов слагается счастье? Только из двух, господа, только из двух: спокойная душа и здоровое тело. О том, как сохранить здоровье, вам скажет любой хороший врач. А как достичь душевного спокойствия, скажу я вам: не совершайте, дети мои, преступлений, не будет у вас ни раскаяния, ни сожаления, а только они делают людей несчастными.

伊勢崎 賢治

僕は、まず、日本の普通の営利企業でいろんな社会経験を積む、そこから始めるべきだと、そういう学生にはアドバイスします。嫌なボスの下で働き、我慢する。人間は、社会は、絶対に自分の思いどおりにはならないのだ、という現実を思い知る。そういう経験を積んで、三十代になってから国際協力の道に入っても全然構わないし、欧米では普通のことなのだ、と学生には言います。

Karen Salmansohn

My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say: “You said the same thing a minute ago.” Just listen, please. Try to remember the times when you were little and I would read the same story night after night until you would fall asleep. When I don’t want to take a bath, don’t be mad and don’t embarrass me. Remember when I had to run after you making excuses and trying to get you to take a shower when you were just a girl?

Brooke Shields

The old me felt creepy and I didn’t want to be it anymore…Everybody thought I would suck. I thought, if I get slaughtered, I will cry, it will be horrible, but I’ll have taken another step. And I tried not to think about whether I was talented or not – I still don’t think about whether I have any real talent. What I did know was hard work.

>クローズアップ現代

>あなたは何歳まで子どもを産めると思いますか?

いつまでも若々しい30代、40代の女性たち。
努力すれば若さは保てると考えられるようになりました。
しかし止められないものがあります。
卵子の老化です。
不妊の原因になるとされています。
ところが、その事実を不妊治療で初めて知る人が後を絶ちません。

卵子の老化を知らず40歳まで仕事に打ち込んできた女性。
20回以上体外受精を続けています。
仕事に追われるうちに妊娠しやすい時期を逃してしまう女性が増えているのです。

見過ごされてきた卵子の老化がもたらす不妊の実態に迫ります。

>Steve Winwood

>Don’t be sad, …
All I have, it’s yours if you think it helps you …
There is only one who means more than all to me …
I see that there’s no need in trying to run …

Tomorrow Is Today (Billy Joel)


I’ve been livin’ for the moment
But I just can’t have my way
And I’m afraid to go to sleep
‘Cause tomorrow is today
People tell me life is sweeter
But I don’t hear what they say
Nothing comes to change my life
So tomorrow is today

>Jiddu Krishnamurti

>… Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
… Anything truly revolutionary is created by a few who see what is true and are willing to live according to that truth; but to discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.
… If you are not at all concerned with the world but only with your personal salvation, following certain beliefs and superstitions, following gurus, then I am afraid it will be impossible for you and the speaker to communicate with each other. We are not concerned at all with private personal salvation but we are concerned, earnestly, seriously, with what the human mind has become, what humanity is facing. We are concerned at looking at this world and what a human being living in this world has to do, what is his role?

>Henry David Thoreau

>… We are constantly invited to be who we are.
… You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
… Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life…When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
… I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

>Heston Blumenthal

>A self-taught chef, Heston Blumenthal’s route to the top has been an unconventional one, involving rule-breaking, unusual experiments and an exploding oven.
In 1982, when Heston was sixteen, he and his family went to a three-star restaurant situated beneath towering cliffs in Provence.  None of them had experienced anything like it before-not just the extraordinary food but the beauty of the surroundings, the delightful smell of lavender in the air, the sounds of chirruping cicadas and splashing fountains, and the sheer theatre of waiters carving lamb at the table or pouring lobster sauce unto soufflés.
At that moment, Heston fell in love with cooking and the idea of being a chef.

>Associated Press

>Johannes Heesters, a Dutch-born entertainer who made his name performing in Adolf Hitler’s Germany and was dogged later in his long career by controversy over his Nazi-era past, has died. He was 108.
Heesters was born Dec. 5, 1903, in the Dutch city of Amersfoort, the youngest of four sons of a businessman. His first wife, Dutch actress Louisa Ghijs, died in 1983. The couple had two daughters, Nicole and Wiesje.
Heesters married his second wife, Rethel — a German actress — in 1992.

>Bronnie Ware

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A list of the top 5 regrets people say aloud on their deathbed:
  1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
  2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.
  3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
  4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
  5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

>Milan Kundera

>…people don’t respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

>Sirtris

>Sirtris, a GSK company, is developing small molecule drugs that target the sirtuins, a family of seven enzymes associated with diseases of aging. Modulation of these enzymes offers the promise of drug discovery in multiple therapeutic areas.
Founded in 2004, Sirtris was one of the first pharmaceutical companies focused on the sirtuin platform and today remains the leader of innovative drug discovery. Preclinical research indicates that the sirtuins play important roles in pathways for multiple diseases of aging, including Type 2 Diabetes, as well as neurodegenerative, cardiovascular and inflammatory diseases.

>Boghog2

>Crystallographic structure of yeast sir2 (rainbow colored cartoon, N-terminus = blue, C-terminus = red) complexed with ADP (space-filling model, carbon = white, oxygen = red, nitrogen = blue, phosphorus = orange) and a histone H4 peptide (magenta) containing an acylated lysine residue (displayed as spheres).

高山樗牛

左衞門、今は嘆きても及ばぬ事、予に於いて聊か憾みなし。禍福はあざなえる繩の如く、世は塞翁が馬、平家の武士も數多きに、時頼こそは中々に嫉しき程の仕合者ぞ。

喜多川信子

空襲から逃れるとき、子供は2人までしか持てないと思ったわ。ひとりの手を引き、もう一人をおぶれば、それ以上はもう無理。だから子供は2人まで。

>NHK

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膨大な住民の証言や、津波襲来まで街中を撮影した数百枚の写真、さらに災害心理学の専門家の分析を交えながら、被災マップを徹底的に読み込んでいく。災害時、人はどういう罠に陥るのか?
  • 普段どおりにすごす「正常性バイアス」
  • 人を助けようとする「愛他行動」
  • 人と同じ行動をとる「同調バイアス」
このような心理が働き、多数の人々がいのちを落とした。

>平岩外四

>

私の生涯の道として 一勤め人の職を選んでしまいました
電気事業という仕事にたずさわってきました
そして事業が続くかぎり全員みんなの努力がその中に溶け込んでおります
私の分も何百万分の一か何千万分の一の 極く微量のものが事業の中に溶け込んでおります
それが企業に従事する者の仕事と存じます
自分の足跡を刻む程のことはありません
私は年をとりまして 生命の燃焼も残り少なくなりました
死ぬ迄自分なりに自己陶冶していきたいと思います
それも死とともに 消滅です
自分をあとに残さないように と思っております

>Ginia Bellafante

>At the Workforce1 office on East 149th Street, I watched a job counselor, Rhodina Smith, assisting someone in a better but still difficult circumstance. The applicant, Michelle Joseph, had a college degree and had worked for 12 years in the St. Lucia Mission to the United Nations. She spoke Creole and some French and had trained diplomats.

“If I had a magic wand and could give you any job you wanted, what would it be?” Ms. Smith asked.

“Anything,” was the reply.

>Identity

>Identity is an online magazine that empowers women to Accept. Appreciate. Achieve.™ We help women get all A’s in the game of life by accepting, appreciating, and achieving within themselves and within their lives.
We are all individual in our thoughts, interests, beliefs, and experiences. Each of us harbors our own fears, doubts, questions, and insecurities. That’s why we bring you a positive and safe place to turn for information, inspiration, support, sharing, and permission to just be who you are.
We’re not all about the latest and greatest diets, fashion fads, celebrity chatter, and beauty miracles- there’s enough of that out there-and there is no quick fix when it comes to your health. Identity’s purpose is to encourage our readers to embrace their inner selves, to love who they are, and to achieve their potential without comparison to anyone else.
Our articles and insights are hand selected to reflect these important philosophies of self-love and self-help. They are meant to guide so that you see yourself in the best possible light, as you always should.
So, celebrate your lives, your bodies, your successes, and your imperfections.

車寅次郎 *

私こと思い起こせば恥ずかしきことの数々 今はただ後悔と反省の日々を過ごしております。 お掛けした迷惑の数々くれぐれもお許し下さい。
尚、柴又におります私の妹、愚かな女なれど身寄り頼り無き不幸の身の上故、何かとお力添えをいただきたく伏してお願い申し上げます。
末筆ながら皆様のご健勝ご多幸を心からお祈りいたします。

インテリというのは自分で考えすぎますからね、そのうち俺は何を考えているんだろうって、分かんなくなってくるわけなんです。つまり、このテレビの裏っ方でいいますと、配線がガチャガチャにこみ入っているわけなんですよねぇ。ええ、その点私なんか線が一本だけですから、まあ、言ってみりゃ空っぽといいましょうか、叩けばコーンと澄んだ音がします。殴ってみましょうか?

日本の男はそんなこと言わないよ。何も言わない、眼で言うよ。お前のことを愛してるよ。すると向こうも眼で答えるな。悪いけど、私あんたのこと嫌い。するとこっちも眼で答えるな。わかりました、いつまでもお幸せに。そのままくるっと背中を向けて黙って去るな。それが日本の男のやり方よ。

>Mary C. Daly, Andrew J. Oswald, Daniel Wilson, Stephen Wu

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Suicide is an important scientific phenomenon. Yet its causes remain poorly understood. This study documents a paradox: the happiest places have the highest suicide rates. The study combines findings from two large and rich individual‐level data sets — one on life satisfaction and another on suicide deaths — to establish the paradox in a consistent way across U.S. states. It replicates the finding in data on Western industrialized nations and checks that the paradox is not an artifact of population composition or confounding factors. The study concludes with the conjecture that people may find it particularly painful to be unhappy in a happy place, so that the decision to commit suicide is influenced by relative comparisons.

Stephen J. Dubner

If I were to ask you what’s more common in the U.S., homicide or suicide, what would you say? Homicide is certainly a lot more prominent; it’s constantly in the headlines and in our public consciousness. But the fact is that suicide is more than twice as common as homicide. The preliminary numbers for 2009, the most recent year for which we have data, show there were roughly 36,500 suicides in the U.S. and roughly 16,500 homicides.
So why don’t we hear more about suicide?

David Lester is willing to entertain any theory, to examine any pattern. Interestingly, he’s found that suicide and homicide are often perfectly out of synch with each other. Homicide spikes not on Mondays but on the weekends, and on national holidays, and during the summer and winter. Homicide is also much more common in cities than in rural areas; for suicide, it’s the opposite.

>John Naish

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Audrey Hepburn, iconic star of Breakfast At Tiffany’s, was renowned for her waif-like figure. But her sylph-like beauty masked a lifetime of poor health which culminated in her death at only 63.
Now, a leading scientist suggests that her genes were fundamentally altered through suffering starvation as a teenager in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
Dr Nessa Carey adds that this link between poor diet and genetic disruption might explain why we are now increasingly suffering from modern health crises such as obesity and diabetes.
From November 1944 until May 1945, a period known in Dutch history as ‘the hunger winter’, she suffered terrible starvation. The Germans blockaded her area of the Netherlands, causing mass malnutrition that killed around 18,000 people.
Hepburn, 16, was reduced to eating tulip bulbs and trying to make bread from grass. She spent the war’s closing days hiding from the Nazis in a cellar.

>John Francis

>As with the practice of silence, the concept of pilgrimage is not new. It is as old as the urge to wander, and has its roots in all the major historical religions as well as a number of the smaller tribal cultures, including those of Egypt and Meso-America. The quantity of pilgrimage and related literature written by theologians, historians, social scientists, and others is staggering.

>蒲原有明

>… 僕には働くといふことが苦手である。ましてや他人の意志の下に働くといふことは、どうあつても出來ない相談である。それなら自分の意志の鞭を背に受けて、嚴肅な人生の途に上らねばならぬといふことは、それが假令考へられるにしても、その考を直ちに實行に移すことを難んずる状態である。今までに一つとして纏つた仕事を成して來なかつたのが何よりの證據である。

 空と雲と大地とは終日ながめくらしても飽くことを知らないが、半日の讀書は僕を倦ましめることが多い。新しい家に移つてからは、空地に好める樹木を植ゑたり、ほんの慰みに畑をいぢつたりするだけの仕事しか爲さないのである。そして僅に發芽する蔬菜のたぐひは、これを順次に、いかにも生に忠實な蟲に供養するまでゝある。勿論厨房の助にならう筈はない。こんな有樣なのであるから、田園生活なんどは毫頭想ひも寄らぬことがらである。僕の生活は都會ともつかず田園ともつかず、その中間にあつて、相變らず空漠なその日暮らしで始終してゐる。そして當然僕の生涯の絃の上には、倦怠と懶惰が執ねくもその灰色の手をおいて、無韻の韻を奏でてゐるのである。

 考へて見れば、これが「生の充實」を稱ふる現代の金口に何等の信仰を持たぬ人間の必定墮ちてゆく羽目であらう。その上、僕には本能的な生の衝動が極めて微弱であるから、悔恨の情さへ起り得ない。とどのつまり永遠に墮ちてゆく先は無爲の陷穽である。

>CTV News.ca

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The group of laid-off Ottawa workers who won a Lotto 6/49 jackpot this week could barely contain their excitement as they picked up their $7 million cheque on Friday.
The 18 winners, 10 of whom just received pink slips from their employer, Smart Technologies, whooped in glee as they claimed their prize at the Ontario Lottery headquarters in Toronto.
“It’s surreal,” one winner told CTV News on Friday. “This has been nothing but a roller coaster ride.”
Just days after learning that their Calgary-based software manufacturer decided to close its Ottawa plant the group found out they won.

>Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter

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There are rules of money that the rich play by, and there are the rules that the other 95 percent of the population plays by. And the 95 percent learns those rules at home and in school. That is why it’s risky today to simply say to a child, `Study hard and look for a job.’ A child today needs a more sophisticated education, and the current system is not delivering the goods.
Most people, working for a paycheck, are making the owner, or the shareholders richer. Your efforts and success will help provide for the owner’s success and retirement.
There was a long silence between us. It was dawning on me that I was giving my son the same advice my parents had given me. The world around us has changed, but the advice hasn’t.
Getting a good education and making good grades no longer ensures success, and nobody seems to have noticed, except our children.
“Mom,” he continued, “I don’t want to work as hard as you and dad do. You make a lot of money, and we live in a huge house with lots of toys. If I follow your advice, I’ll wind up like you, working harder and harder only to pay more taxes and wind up in debt. There is no job security anymore; I know all about downsizing and rightsizing. I also know that college graduates today earn less than you did when you graduated. Look at doctors. They don’t make nearly as much money as they used to. I know I can’t rely on Social Security or company pensions for retirement. I need new answers.”

>Kathleen Mitchell

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There is a belief entrenched in American culture that career planning Is a logical and linear activity…
…But it’s not.
We are expected to choose a career from among thousands of possibilities, often before having a chance to explore one option. Even experts cannot always anticipate the economic, social, and political events that will impact employment. How can anyone be expected to prepare for a career in a world that is constantly emerging?
We do not always need a plan to create a career. Instead, we need a plan to act on happenstance — to transform unplanned events into career opportunity.

>Keith Jarrett

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We live between birth and death
Or so we convince ourselves conveniently
When in truth we are being born and
We are dying simultaneously
Every eternal instant
Of our lives
We should try to be more

>Cäsar Flaischlen

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Hab Sonne im Herzen,
ob’s stürmt oder schneit,
ob der Himmel voll Wolken,
die Erde voll Streit!
Hab ein Lied auf den Lippen,
verlier nie den Mut,
hab Sonne im Herzen,
und alles wird gut!

>Catherine Friend

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Sixteen years ago I was not at all sheepish. I was bookish, library- ish, wine-and-appetizer-ish. Decidedly unsheepish. My only exposure to sheep was as a child visiting my grandmother’s sheep ranch in southeastern Montana—lots of dust, lots of heat, and every now and then a little orphan lamb that I could help Grandma feed with a bottle. My grandmother left the ranch when I was a teenager, so sheep played no role in my life after that.
As an adult, I met Melissa through a personal ad, the pre- Internet method for dating. She and I were totally different, not two people who should build a life together, so we fell in love and did precisely that. We led fairly boring, urban lives for over ten years while I discovered writing and Melissa cultivated her love of land and animals and caring for both.
Then, out of the blue, Melissa asked me if I would help her start a farm.

>Peter W. Gallagher

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On average, they will enjoy a much higher standard of life than we do, partly because they will be healthier, even robust, and independent for most of their long lives. But medical advances will likely not be sufficient to secure a bright future for the new old age. We will also need new approaches to, and expectations of, employment and career; new regulatory frameworks for savings and retirement; and possibly new objectives in education to support individuals whose employment, household composition, location, and interests are sure to evolve as they enjoy eight, nine or 10 decades of maturity.

>Larry David

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Finally, after years of pain and struggle, I had accepted the fact that I would never be a good golfer. No matter how many hours I practiced, no matter how many instructors I saw, how many books and magazines I read, or how many teaching aids I tried. Then it hit me. According to Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s book “On Death and Dying,” Acceptance was the final stage of grief that terminal patients experience before dying, the others being Anger, Denial, Bargaining, and Depression. I was in the final stage! When I started thinking about it, I realized that I’d gone through every one of those stages, but not as a terminal patient . . . as a golfer.
I will never be good. There, I said it. I like saying it. I’ll say it again: I’ll never be good. It’s just not something I’m suited for. That’s O.K. I’m good at other things. What those are I have no idea. But I’m sure there are some. … … So it’s clearly psychological. I wonder . . . what if I blindfolded myself ? Is it possible?! Have I stumbled upon the Secret? It makes sense. The reason I can’t hit the ball is that I can see it! Tomorrow I’m going to play blindfolded, and if that doesn’t work then I’ll definitely and unequivocally accept Acceptance. I just want to try this blindfold idea. I have a very good feeling about it. Very good.

刘文秀

“一吻救人”的少女
一个年仅16岁的少年,因为缺少家庭温暖,遭受生活挫折而欲跳楼自杀。而这位只有19岁的少女,却用耐心的劝导和急中生智的一吻,挽救了这名少年生命。

>日経ウーマンオンライン

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現在、みなさんのような素敵な働き女子に見合うだけのナイスな男子は、圧倒的に世の中に不足しています(それはなにも経済力だけの話ではなく、コミュニケーション能力や見た目など、トータルでの話です)。ハッキリ言って、この10年で日本の女子は男子に比べてちょっと素敵になりすぎたのです。
それはもはやどうしようもない自明の理。それをどれだけ嘆こうとも「なんで太陽は東から昇るの!?」と愚痴るようなものです。
一方で、やみくもに「現実を見て妥協しろ」という人もいますが、妥協してまで結婚したくない、というのも本音なはず。妥協したくなければ妥協なんてしなくていいです。
毎日を楽しく過ごし、その上で出会いの可能性を少し高めてみる。素敵な相手が見つかるかもしれないし、見つからないかもしれない。その場合でも、十分楽しい。そうやってなんとか生きていくしかありません。

>緒方洪庵

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一、医の世に生活するは人の為のみ、おのれがためにあらずということを其業の本旨とす。安逸を思はず、名利を顧みず、唯おのれをすてて人を救はんことを希ふべし。人の生命を保全し、人の疾病を復治し、人の患苦を寛解するの外他事あるものにあらず。
一、病者に対しては唯病者を見るべし。貴賤貧富を顧ることなかれ。長者一握の黄金を以て貧士双眼の感涙に比するに、其心に得るところ如何ぞや。深く之を思ふべし。
一、其術を行ふに当ては病者を以て正鵠とすべし。決して弓矢となすことなかれ。固執に僻せず、漫試を好まず、謹慎して、眇看細密ならんことをおもふべし。
一、学術を研精するの外、尚言行に意を用いて病者に信任せられんことを求むべし。然りといへども、時様の服飾を用ひ、詭誕の奇説を唱へて、聞達を求むるは大に恥るところなり。
一、毎日夜間に方て更に昼間の病按を再考し、詳に筆記するを課定とすべし。積て一書を成せば、自己の為にも病者のためにも広大の裨益あり。

>Midnite

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love the life you live, lead the life you love
goodness and mercy
the mountains of Africa, they are familiar to me, we were scattered everywhere,
for as far as the eyes could see, but we are from the mountains of the moon
so we love the life we live, lead the life we love, we love the life we live, lead the life we love
no tears, you don’t shed no tears
your body is your temple, your one and only temple
humanitarians, those of you saving only animals, remove the scales from your eyes
humanitarian saving whales, I’m saying what about humanity
when I cry I cry dry
love the life you live, lead the life you love, you lead the life you love

>Kin Hubbard

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  • When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I’m wrong.
  • Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.
  • Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.
  • Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
  • Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
  • Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
  • We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate.
  • When a fellow says, “It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,” it’s the money.
  • There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?
  • There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn’t make the mistake of trying to get together.
  • The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
  • The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
  • Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
  • Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
  • Some fellows (and dumb sexy bimbos) get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
  • It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be,

>Emile Griffith

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I keep thinking how strange it is … I kill a man and most people understand and forgive me. However, I love a man, and to so many people this is an unforgivable sin; this makes me an evil person. So, even though I never went to jail, I have been in prison almost all my life.
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I like men and women both. But I don’t like that word: homosexual, gay or faggot. I don’t know what I am. I love men and women the same, but if you ask me which is better … I like women.

>Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Tout homme a droit de risquer sa propre vie pour la conserver. A-t-on jamais dit que celui qui se jette par une fenêtre pour échapper à un incendie soit coupable de suicide ? A-t-on même jamais imputé ce crime à celui qui périt dans une tempête dont en s’embarquant il n’ignorait pas le danger ?

>熊谷直実

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思へばこの世は常の住み家にあらず
草葉に置く白露、水に宿る月よりなほあやし
金谷に花を詠じ、榮花は先立つて無常の風に誘はるる
南楼の月を弄ぶ輩も 月に先立つて有為の雲にかくれり
人間五十年、化天のうちを比ぶれば、夢幻の如くなり
一度生を享け、滅せぬもののあるべきか
これを菩提の種と思ひ定めざらんは、口惜しかりき次第ぞ

>Samuel Ullman

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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being’s heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what’s next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.

>Donald McCullogh

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In 1923, seven men who had made it to the top of the financial success pyramid met together at the Edgewater Hotel in Chicago. Collectively, they controlled more wealth than the entire Untied States Treasury, and for years the media had held them up as examples of success.
Who were they? Charles Schwab, president of the world’s largest steel company; Arthur Cutten, the greatest wheat speculator of his day; Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange; Albert Fall, a member of the President’s Cabinet; Jesse Livermore, the greatest bear on Wall Street; Leon Fraser, president of the International Bank of Settlement; and Ivan Kruegger, the head of the world’s largest monopoly.
What happened to them? Schwab and Cutten both died broke; Whitney spent years of his life in Sing Sing penitentiary; Fall also spent years in prison, but was released so he could die at home; and the others- Livermore, Fraser, and Kruegger, committed suicide.

>Geneviève Comby

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… les enfants heureux ont … plus de chances de devenir des adultes heureux. En tout cas, ils réussissent mieux leur parcours scolaire et sont, ensuite, plus satisfaits de leur travail. Ils ont une vie sociale plus intense, plus de contacts avec leurs amis et leur famille, de même qu’une plus faible probabilité de souffrir de troubles psychiques.
Seule ombre à ce tableau idyllique: les enfants bien dans leur peau divorcent plus une fois adultes.

>Marcus Richards, Felicia A. Huppert

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… teenagers rated positively by their teachers were significantly more likely than those who received no positive ratings to have higher levels of well-being later in life, including a higher work satisfaction, more frequent contact with family and friends, and more regular engagement in social and leisure activities.

Happy children were also much less likely than others to develop mental disorders throughout their lives – 60% less likely than young teens that had no positive ratings.

The study not only failed to find a link between being a happy child and an increased likelihood of becoming married, they found that the people who had been happy children were actually more likely to get divorced. One possible factor suggested by the researchers is that happier people have higher self-esteem or self-efficacy and are therefore more willing and able to leave an unhappy marriage.

>Marilyn Monroe

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This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends – they’ll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything – they’re your true best friends. Don’t let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they’ll come and go too. And babe, I hate to say it, most of them – actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can’t give up becuase if you give up, you’ll never find your soul mate. You’ll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.

>Nick Collins

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Traditional wisdom states that our younger years are the best of our lives, with the milestone of 40 meaning we are “over the hill” and already on the wane.
But in fact satisfaction and optimism steadily increase after middle age, easily eclipsing the earlier years and peaking as late as the eighties, according to research.
An easing of the responsibilities of middle age combined with maturity and the ability to focus on the things we enjoy combine to make old age far more enjoyable than one might expect.
This is greatly increased by having good health, a stable income and good relationships with family and friends, according to scientists.

>Утро

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В среднем возрасте человек, как правило, разрывается между семьей и работой, что влечет за собой депрессию, а также безрадостные мысли о том, что все самое хорошее осталось в молодости. Однако это не совсем так, уверены ученые.
Чем старше становится человек, тем он счастливее, к такому неожиданному выводу пришли ученые. Самые лучшие годы ждут людей, когда они выходят на пенсию, говорят специалисты.
Согласно выкладкам британских и американских ученых, ощущение гармонии возвращается к старости. Правда, для этого должны быть определенные условия — наличие денег, крепкого здоровья и близких людей, друзей, родственников или второй половины.

>安部公房

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終った所から始めた旅に、終りはない。墓の中の誕生のことを語らねばならぬ。何故に人間はかく在らねばならぬのか?

>Tina Turner

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Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

>Charles Bukowski

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What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death. They don’t honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can’t hear it. Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.

>チャールズ・ブコウスキー

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俺たちはさんざん待った。俺たちみんな。待つことが人を狂わせる大きな原因だってことくらい、医者は知らんのか?
人はみな一生を待って過ごす。生きるために待ち、死ぬために待つ。トイレットペーパーを買うために並んで待つ。金をもらうために並んで待つ。金がなけりゃ、並ぶ列はもっと長くなる。眠るために待ち、目ざめるために待つ、結婚するために待ち、離婚するために待つ。雨が降るのを待ち雨が止むのを待つ。食べるために待ち、それからまた、食べるために待つ。頭のおかしい奴らと一緒に精神科の待合室で待ち、自分もやっぱりおかしいんだろうかと思案する。