Your chances of avoiding the nursing home are directly related to the number of children you have
Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology, with the limits set by genes and cells and flesh and bone. Medical science has given us remarkable power to push against these limits, and the potential value of this power was a central reason I became a doctor. But again and again, I have seen the damage we in medicine do when we fail to acknowledge that such power is finite and always will be. We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way. Whenever serious sickness or injury strikes and your body or mind breaks down, the vital questions are the same: What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.
For all but our most recent history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn’t matter whether you were five or fifty. Every day was a roll of the dice.
Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.
Сам по себе алкоголь не яд, он лишь его высвобождает.
Ну и что? Он сам виноват, раз такой добрый! И потом, не добрые унаследуют землю, а бедные, скромные и смиренные.
Будущее Тильду абсолютно не интересовало, и в результате ей была дарована великолепная способность уже в настоящем чувствовать себя счастливой. В данный момент, например, она казалась себе совершенно счастливой.
Видишь ли, я никогда не позволю сексу доминировать в моей жизни, я просто найду для него подходящее место…