I am just reading about the great lives of some Japanese who have already zoom past the age where people don’t expect them to be productive, and come up with some great quotes.

Yuichiro Miura is the oldest person to scale Mt. Everent when in 2003, at age 70, he scaled the roof of the world. He said, ” When you’re getting older, you think about the things you can’t do and all the reasons. But if I have to die in a hospital, I might as well die on Everest.”

He is now training Read the rest of this entry »

I have written some posts on happiness, some of which are A Reason to be Happy and How to be Happy. I guess the quest on happiness is a never ending quest for all of us.

I just recently came across a quote inspired by Buddhist teaching which says that unhappiness derives from the incessant habits of judging every experience as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral, and of trying to hold on to the pleasant ones while shunning the unpleasant.

Everybody wants to Read the rest of this entry »

A few weeks ago, I wrote about When your Best Days are Behind You. It talks about the feeling when you feel that your glory days are gone, and it will never come back.

That was obviously what happened to Yuichiro Miura. After becoming the first person to ski Mount Everest Read the rest of this entry »