People who have survived their own suicide attempts say there are things that ordinary people can do to help someone they know who might be at risk of suicide: Ask, and Listen. Do not offer advice or try to cheer people up. You can tell people all day long that they have this future and they ...
2013-05-20 Saint Paul, USA / My last Days / Meine letzten Tage / Meus últimos Dias / Mis ultimos Dias
You think about the future. You do it pretty freely - Where will you be in five years? What will your children look like? What stories will you tell your grandkids? You are confident that you will get to live all of those milestones moments in your life. Your days are limited. There are those in their 30's, 20's, ...
1935-05-19 Dorset, England / Nothing is Written / Nichts ist Bestimmt / Nada está Escrito / Nada esta Escrito
Do you have free will or is everything fate. There is no sense of a middle way, of some other possibility. What if life is lived in constant interaction with a complex of forces, energies, experiences and events that is so multi-dimensional and varied that it is impossible to reduce it to an either/or, a duality ...
Pursuit Of Happiness / Das Streben nach Glück / Busca da Felicidade / Búsqueda de la Felicidad
Happiness has become the core question of your life. But the preoccupation with happiness may actually be making you less happy. The obsession with happiness may lead you to discount both the presence and the value of the challenging and painful events that are inevitable in your life. And not to mention making you feel completely inadequate when you ...
Happiness is a way of Travel / Glück ist eine Art zu Reisen / Felicidade é uma forma de Viajar / La felicidad es una forma de Viajar
Money may or may not bring happiness, depending on who you ask. But travel definitely does. Collecting great experiences is the soul of happiness. Travelling is the best ticket to explore the World. You want to ‘find yourself’ and are tired of the routine you have fallen into in your everyday life. You want to have a blast ...
Children of the Sun / Kinder der Sonne / Filhos do Sol / Hijos del Sol
If the Earth is our true mother, then the sun is our true parent. Together they make life on Earth possible. The sun’s energy enables life forms to exist on our planet. The sun offers light and warmth for plants to grow. Without the sun, there would be no life at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQULUQDYHLk Countless civilizations have paid homage ...
The Truth is Difficult / Die Wahrheit ist Schwierig / A verdade é Difícil / La verdad es Dificil
People are not born liars. It happens over time in all sorts of ways. Maybe telling the truth gets you into trouble. Maybe telling the truth could hurt someone. Maybe telling the truth is too scary. Maybe telling the truth is too difficult to believe. Maybe telling the truth is totally and utterly and completely unacceptable. It ...
If I Could Talk / Wenn ich reden Könnte / Se eu pudesse Falar / Si pudiera Hablar
Dogs are probably the best thing about life. If you disagree or prefer cats then you are wrong! Dogs are loyal, trusting companions, friends and members of the family. But they have one downfall. They can not talk! Would it not be great to talk to your dog, to know exactly what he was thinking, ...
1961-05-13 Los Angeles, USA / Do not forsake me oh my Darling / Lass mich nicht im Stich, mein Schatz / Não me abandone, oh meu Amor / No me abandones, oh mi Amor
Our entertainment-saturated Society helps feed all sorts of illusions about reality. The fantasy of the perfect romantic and sexual relationship, the perfect lifestyle, and the perfect body all prove unattainable because the reality never lives up to the expectation. The worst fallout comes in the marriage relationship. When two people can not live up to each ...
2008-05-12 Warsaw, Poland / Whoever saves one life saves the World / Wer ein Leben rettet, rettet die Welt / Quem salva uma vida salva o Mundo / Quien salva una vida salva el Mundo
The Jewish ghetto was a functioning community and to many Jews seemed the safest available place for themselves and their children. Survival on the outside was plausible only for people with access to financial resources. This calculation lost its validity in July 1942, when the Germans proceeded with the liquidation of the ghetto in Warsaw and ...
Finding a better Way / Einen besseren Weg Finden / Encontrar uma maneira Melhor / Encontrando una mejor Manera
Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present. the result being that he does not live in the present or the future. He lives as if he is never going to die, ...
Happiness is the Way / Glück ist der Weg / A felicidade é o Caminho / La felicidad es el Camino
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. -You should be happy right in the here and now. There is no way to enlightenment. Enlightenment should be right here and right now. The moment when you come back to yourself, mind and body together, fully present, fully alive, that is already enlightenment. You ...
2017-05-09 Ibiza, Spain / Children / Kinder / Crianças / Niños
'Children' cost £150 to record. The song was Robert Miles ' most successful single, being certified Gold and Platinum in several countries. Reaching number one in more than 12 countries. Robert Miles gave two inspirations for the writing of 'Children'. One was as a response to photographs of child Yugoslav war victims that his father had brought home ...
Finding your Passion / Deine Leidenschaft Finden / Encontrando sua Paixão / Encontrando tu Pasion
It can be so frustrating when people use a well-worn phrase and advise you to 'just follow your passion'. Yes, sure, you would love to ... if only you knew what your passion was. Following your passion presupposes that you have one. But many people do not because ... You have too many options. You just desire ...
See for the first Time / Zum ersten mal Sehen / Vendo pela primeira Vez / Viendo por primera Vez
Seeing the reality of your life sounds like it should be easy. But many people hold to a different version. It may be based in regret, disappointment, denial, or just waiting for something better. Failing to connect with reality is why some have pants in the closet that have not fit in years. If you want to ...
Our need for a sense of Unity / Unser Bedürfnis nach Einheit / Nossa necessidade de um senso de Unidade / Nuestra necesidad de un sentido de Unidad
The Earth is not a big rock, infested with living organisms, any more than your skeleton is bones infested with cells. The Earth is geological, yes, but this geological entity grows people. And our existence on the Earth is a symptom of the solar system and its balances as much as the solar system in turn ...
The rules of the game must Change / Die Spielregeln müssen sich Ändern / As regras do jogo devem Mudar / Las reglas del juego deben Cambiar
We seem to be turning nearly every aspect of life into a competition in which somebody must win and somebody must lose. Economics is all about competition, and the way we talk about it now emphasizes winners and losers. This country is taking away our export markets, this country is taking away our jobs, this country is ...
He changed me and then he Left / Er hat mich verändert und ist dann Gegangen / Ele me mudou e então ele Saiu / Me cambió y luego se Fue
I never have the best of luck with relationships so I just have given up on trying to find someone in my life to keep me happy, until one night when everything changed. That name that I will never forget and to this day brings me happiness and sadness all at once. We started that night with ...
1961-05-04 Washington DC, USA / Freedom Riders / Freiheitsreisende / Viajantes da Liberdade / Viajeros de la Libertad
The original group of 13 Freedom Riders - seven African Americans and six whites - left Washington, D.C., on a Greyhound bus on May 4th, 1961. Their plan was to reach New Orleans, Louisiana, on May 17th to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision, which ruled that segregation of the nation’s public schools ...
1987-05-03 Paris, France / Life is unbearable for Me / Das Leben ist unerträglich für Mich / A vida é insuportável para Mim / La vie m’est insupportable
While Dalida was professionally very successful, her private life was marred by a series of failed relationships and personal problems. In January 1967, she took part in the Sanremo Festival with her new lover, Italian singer, songwriter, and actor Luigi Tenco. The song he presented was 'Ciao amore ciao' ('Bye Love, Bye'), which he sang together with Dalida but ...
What is a Man / Was ist ein Mann / O que é um Homem / Qué es un Hombre
A man watches. This is not about quietude so much as collection. It is not about meditation so much as considering. No one taught him this - to be quiet, to cipher, to watch. You can not take your eyes off a man when he is like that. You should not. The hell if you know ...
1994-05-01 Imola, Italy / Someday you will get There / Eines Tages wirst Du es Schaffen / Um dia você chega Lá / Un día tu llegas Allí
Senna was married to Lilian de Vasconcelos Souza from 1981 until 1982. Though he did not have much of an income early in his racing career, Senna insisted on supporting his wife with no help from his father out of a sense of pride. The marriage ended in divorce. Senna then courted Adriane Yamin, daughter of an ...
Give it away and it will come Back / Gib es weg und es wird Wiederkommen / Deixe ir e vai Voltar / Déjalo ir y Volverá
That what I want, basically, what I really want, is what you want. And I don't know what you want ... 'Surprise me'. But that's the kinship between 'I' and 'thou'. So when I ask, I go right down to the question, which we started with: 'What do I want?' The answer is 'I don't know'. ...
They want you to be Poor / Sie möchten, dass du arm bist / Eles querem que você seja Pobre / Quieren que seas Pobre
An ancient piece of common wisdom says the poor get poorer and the rich get richer. The wealth of the rich is the ignorance of the people; in fact, the rich profits from the ignorance of the poor. There is no man that is poor; every man is rich in something. The ‘rich’ are rich in ideas ...
Right side of Wrong / Rechte Seite des Falschen / Lado direito do Errado / Lado derecho del Mal
Maybe things do not happen for a reason. Maybe we are just grasping for ways to make sense of the chaos around us. Maybe we are giving meaning to things that have no meaning. Maybe we are clinging to hope so hard that we forget about reality. What if we are wrong and nothing is meant ...