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Supercentenarian cases

These notable living supercentenarian cases, in descending order of claimed age, with full birth and review dates, have been updated within the past two years, but have no publicly available early-life records to support them. The names and cases of people whose lifespan is documented by at least one publicly available, standardized early-life record are recorded by the Gerontology Research Group in a list of pending partially verified claims. The minimum claimed age for this list is 115 years.

Name Sex Reported birth date Age as of 25 November 2015 Place of residence Latest report
Alimihan Seyiti[17][18] F 25 June 1886 129 years, 153 days China 29 July 2015
Jose Aguinelo dos Santos[19] M 7 July 1888 127 years, 141 days Brazil 13 December 2014
Maria Lucimar Pereira[20] F 3 September 1890 125 years, 83 days Brazil 25 May 2015
Turupu Aimaiti[21] M 5 February 1892 123 years, 293 days China 1 February 2015
Daw Mya Kyi[22][23][24] F 21 October 1892 123 years, 35 days Myanmar 2 October 2015
Nguyễn Thị Trù[25][26][a] F 4 May 1893 122 years, 205 days Vietnam 24 April 2015
Tian Longyu[27] F 9 June 1893 122 years, 169 days China 5 August 2015
Juana Chox Yac[28] F 29 November 1893 121 years, 361 days Guatemala 22 July 2014
Eurides Fagundes[29][30] F 6 December 1894 120 years, 354 days Brazil 7 May 2015
Yaolidaxi Yaoleiwasi[31][32][33] M 1 January 1895 120 years, 328 days China 2 April 2014
Cicilia Laurent[34][35] F 31 January 1896 119 years, 298 days Canada 12 January 2015
Premsai Patel[36] M 11 May 1896 119 years, 198 days India 1 October 2015
Celino Villanueva Jaramillo[37][38] M 25 July 1896 119 years, 123 days Chile 25 July 2015
Swami Sivananda[39] M 8 August 1896 119 years, 109 days India 20 December 2014
Fu Jiangshi[31][40] F 2 April 1897 118 years, 237 days China 25 November 2014
Sudhakar Chaturvedi[41][42][43][44] M 20 April 1897 118 years, 219 days India 10 November 2015
Fu Suqing[45] F 19 July 1897 118 years, 129 days China 2 September 2015
María Juana Martínez[46][47][48] F 7 May 1898 117 years, 202 days Argentina 20 June 2015
Deolinda Soares Rodrigues[49] F 24 June 1898 117 years, 154 days Brazil 24 June 2015
Amalia López Celis[50][51] F 10 July 1898 117 years, 138 days Mexico 3 September 2014
Na Messaouda Tarfa[52] F 25 July 1898 117 years, 123 days Algeria 6 August 2014
Andrew Hatch[53] M 7 October 1898 117 years, 49 days United States 8 October 2015
Li Suqing[54] F 14 January 1899 116 years, 315 days China 30 September 2014
João da Rosa[55] M 24 June 1899 116 years, 154 days Brazil 25 June 2014
Maria Domingas Vaz de Lima[56][57][58] F 15 August 1899 116 years, 102 days Brazil 23 August 2015
Gjela Mhilli[59] F 9 March 1900 115 years, 261 days Albania 2 March 2015
José Delgado Corrales[60] M 10 March 1900 115 years, 260 days Costa Rica 6 August 2015
Carlotita Moreno Moreno[61][62] F 4 April 1900 115 years, 235 days Mexico 30 March 2015
Rosalina dos Santos[63][64] F 6 April 1900 115 years, 233 days Brazil 5 May 2015
Amantina Santos Duvirgem[65] F 28 April 1900 115 years, 211 days Brazil 30 April 2015
María Félix Nava[66] F 20 July 1900 115 years, 128 days Mexico 27 August 2015
Natalia Paulina Reynoso[67] F 27 July 1900 115 years, 121 days Argentina 27 July 2015
Maria Benedita Pereira da Silva[68] F 9 August 1900 115 years, 108 days Brazil 29 September 2015
Roque Gómez[69] M 16 August 1900 115 years, 101 days Honduras 25 August 2015
Gogo Chikondano[70] F 6 September 1900 115 years, 80 days Malawi 12 September 2015
Januária Pinheiro da Silva[71] F 3 November 1900 115 years, 22 days Brazil 3 November 2015

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Quotes by Voltaire

Quotes by Voltaire

French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778) • 81 quotes.
  1. A witty saying proves nothing.
  2. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
  3. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
  4. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
  5. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
  6. Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
  7. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
  8. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
  9. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
  10. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
  11. Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
  12. When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
  13. The secret of being boring is to say everything.
  14. Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
  15. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
  16. …the safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
  17. Love truth, and pardon error.
  18. Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
  19. The public is a ferocious beast — one must either chain it up or flee from it.
  20. Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
  21. Common sense is not so common.
  22. Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
  23. It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
  24. We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
  25. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
  26. The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
  27. I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
  28. Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
  29. Life resembles the banquet of Damocles; the sword is ever suspended.
  30. He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
  31. Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
  32. It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
  33. The superfluous is very necessary.
  34. It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it’s a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
  35. It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
  36. If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
  37. England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.
  38. Canada: A few acres of snow.
  39. I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
  40. Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
  41. It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
  42. When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.
  43. The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
  44. A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
  45. Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
  46. The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other.
  47. Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
  48. This poem will never reach its destination.
  49. May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
  50. Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.
  51. Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
  52. This is no time to make new enemies.
  53. God created sex. Priests created marriage.
  54. There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics… We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
  55. The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
  56. As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.
  57. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
  58. Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
  59. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
  60. Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
  61. Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
  62. All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
  63. You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.
  64. There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
  65. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
  66. True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
  67. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
  68. Regimen is superior to medicine.

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Mindfulness is being open to the outcome

There are moments in life that are hard, painful, scary and difficult to endure. There are times when we feel anger, anxiety, grief, embarrassment, stress, remorse or other unpleasant emotions.

In these trying times we often want to escape the pain, drown it out or push it away somehow. We may begin a mental struggle with the pain trying to mentally talk our way out of it, or we distract ourselves with activities or drown it out with food or drink or something stronger.

All these ways of avoiding pain only perpetuate it in the long run. Avoidance creates suffering and keeps us from living fully, this miraculous and precious life that we have.

Through mindfulness you can learn to turn your difficult emotions into your greatest teachers and sources of strength.

How?

Instead of ‘turning away’ from pain in avoidance we can learn to gently ‘turn towards’ what we’re experiencing. We can bring a caring open attention toward the wounded parts of ourselves and make wise choices about how to respond to ourselves and to life.

Here is a six step process for mindfully dealing with difficult emotions…

1. Stop, Turn Towardsfile000101532435
Once you have become aware of the feeling, stop for a moment. Take a deep breath and then ‘sit with’ the anger, shame, guilt, anger, anxiety, frustration and fear. Don’t inhibit it, suppress it, ignore it or try to conquer it. Just be with it with an attitude of open curiosity and acceptance.

2. Identify The Emotion
Acknowledge the emotion is there. If you are embarrassed, you can specifically recognize that feeling. You can mentally say to yourself, for example, “I know there is embarrassment in me.”

3. Acceptance Of What Is
When you are embarrassed, or feeling another difficult emotion, you don’t need to deny it. You can accept what is present. In his book Peace is Every Step, Thich Nhat Hahn suggest we actually mentally acknowledge to ourselves…
“I can accept that I am experiencing intense embarrassment right now.”

Through your mindful acceptance you can embrace or hold the feeling in your awareness– this alone can calm and soothe you. This is an act of self-compassion and responsiveness to your own distress, and it is so much more effective than punishing yourself for having this feeling.

See if you can open to feeling what you feel. Opening to it means to see what is there fully without suppressing, rejecting, ignoring or trying to be ‘stronger’ than the emotion.

By opening and embracing the emotion you create a mental space around it and witness it instead of being enmeshed in it. Be creating this space you’ll discover that you are not your anger, your fear or your pain. You are much larger
than that.

Think of embracing your difficult emotion in your arms like a mother holding her upset child.

4. Realize The Impermanence Of All Emotions
Acknowledge that all emotions are impermanent. They arise, stay for a while and then disappear. They come and go in you like waves in the sea, cresting and receding.

Your task is simply to allow this current wave to be and to witness, with patience, as it continuously changes form and eventually disappears.

We often take emotions (especially negative ones) very personally but mindfulness invites us to view them as simply mental events passing through- temporary waves in our ocean of awareness.

Psychologist and mindfulness teacher Elisha Goldstein suggests, it can be helpful to say to ourselves, “While this is a temporary feeling, it is here right now, how can I care for it, what do I need?”

5. Investigation & Response
When you are calm enough, you can look deeply into your emotion to understand what has brought it about, and what is causing your discomfort.

It may be that particular kinds of thoughts were the cause. You may have been worrying unnecessarily about something or someone and that generated feelings of anxiety. Perhaps you were ruminating on a random comment a colleague said last week and it created anger or embarrassment.

You may also find that you have particular values, beliefs, expectations and judgments about how you should behave or be seen by others that contributed to the emotion.

Perhaps an event has happened and your response is perfectly natural or perhaps an old habitual reaction. Allow the light of your mindful awareness to help you gain insights into the emotion.

You may then reflect on how you want to respond to what is happening. This may be take the form of simply realizing that your thoughts are not reality and therefore not taking them seriously.

It could be that the simple embracing of the emotion is all you need to do for now, or it could be that a response is needed to a situation that has arisen in your daily life.

Trust yourself to choose the appropriate response.

6. Be Open To Outcome

written by Mellisa O’Brien

Mellisa is a mindfulness teacher, but first and foremost a devoted mindfulness practitioner (who’s still learning, discovering and deepening every day).
Sharing the joy of mindful living is her passion and purpose. She runs regular retreats and courses around Australia and also has a blog on ‘the art of mindful living‘ where she shares simple teachings and tips for everyday people. She lives in a quiet green patch of paradise in northern NSW Australia. You can check out her website at http://mrsmindfulness.com/

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