The kindest people in Russian history. The kindest people in Russian history

What is good? For each person, the concept of the word GOOD is different. Having heard this word, one will think about actions, another about help, the third about something else. IN modern world This word is so strongly suppressed by negativity that many schoolchildren do not know how to correctly answer the question: What is good?

Mother Teresa One of the most famous people Who did good and left a huge mark on Earth with her actions and will forever remain in the memory of people is Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa is a name known to people all over the world; it has long become a household name and is associated with mercy, compassion, and love. But how many people know what exactly the famous nun is famous for and why she became the Mother of all the poor, humiliated and helpless?

This modest fragile woman with a sympathetic heart and hard-working peasant hands, she always found herself in the hottest spots globe to help people, pray for their well-being and say simple good words who can support them in difficult times. More than one book has been written about her, more than one film has been made. She called herself a pencil in the hands of God, writing a love letter to the world. She lived hard life, went through many trials, but her soul remained open to people to whom she gave her love, care and helped as best she could. “If you want to make the world a better place, go home and love your family!” These words belong to Mother Teresa.

short biography She was born on August 26, 1910 in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje, into an Albanian family. Her real name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was the youngest of three children of Nicola Bojaxhiu, a wealthy building contractor and merchant. Agnes means “born under the star of the Lamb”, pure and innocent. And indeed, this slightly strange girl was different from her peers. Already at the age of fourteen, she told her mother that she wanted to devote her life to serving God and asked permission to become a nun. When she turned eighteen, Agnes left her native Macedonia forever and settled in the capital of Ireland, Dublin, where she became a novice in the monastic order of the Irish Sisters of Loreto, and a few years later she took monastic vows with the name Teresa. Two decades have passed in prayers of thanksgiving To the Lord and tireless work: Sister Teresa taught at St. Mary's Girls' School, providing education to children from the poorest families, and sang in the church choir. Seeing how people suffered from hunger, dirt and disease, she gradually realized her purpose: to help the disadvantaged in any way possible, to do works of mercy and compassion.

Mother Teresa's 10 commandments 1. People can be unreasonable, illogical and selfish - forgive them anyway. 2. If you show kindness, and people accuse you of secret personal motives, show kindness anyway. 3. If you achieve success, then you may have many imaginary friends and real enemies - still achieve success. 4. If you are honest and frank, then people can deceive you - still be honest and frank. 5. What you have been building for years can be destroyed overnight - continue to build anyway.. 6. If you have found serene happiness, then people may envy you - still be happy 7. The good that you have done today, people will forget tomorrow - do good anyway. 8. Share the best of what you have with people, and they will never have enough of it - still continue to share the best with them. 9. It doesn’t matter who says what about you – accept everything with a smile and continue doing your job. 10. Pray together and remain in unity.
Mother Teresa's main advice The main advice from Mother Teresa to people: “From a material point of view, you have everything in this world, but your heart is sad; don’t worry about what you don’t have, just go and serve people: hold their hands in yours and express love; if you follow this advice, you will shine like a beacon."

True stories from the lives of people with different destinies, lives and worldviews, but united by one big heart.

1. Dima is a teenager, no different from other guys like him. Nothing but kindness and sensitivity to complete strangers. One day he needed to visit the military registration and enlistment office. He didn’t have money for the bus, so he had to walk. It was in February. Having walked quite a bit from the house, from a distance he saw a woman lying in the snow. At first Dima thought that she was drunk, but when he approached her, he saw an elderly woman. Although there were many passers-by on the street, no one except Dima paid attention to her. The teenager came up and slowly picked her up. She said she was walking to church when she slipped and fell. Dima brought the woman home, although he had to deviate from the given route by two stops. As a sign of gratitude, she tried to give the guy money for travel. But Dima refused - that’s not why he helped her.

2. Love for animals can be limitless. Steve Craig, an accountant from Denver, knows this firsthand. A month after the death of his beloved dog, he began to feel depressed. Then Steve decided to take old, sick dogs from the shelter, who are unlikely to attract anyone's attention and whose fate, alas, is predictable. First, he adopted a twelve-year-old Chihuahua with a heart murmur and painful joints. Now he has 10 elderly dogs living at home. “I’m very happy that I was able to make these animals happy,” says Steve.

3. It’s no secret what exotic food they eat in South Korea. At their meat market you can find any animal, including dogs. Two-year-old dog Chi-Chi, hanging upside down in a dark room, was constantly beaten to make her meat more tender. However, for unknown reasons, it did not become another delicacy on someone’s table. She was simply left to die in a garbage bag. Fortunately, Chi-Chi was saved, but all of her legs had to be amputated. And after two months at the veterinary clinic, the dog found a family in Phoenix, Arizona.

4. Dreams tend to come true. It also came true for twelve-year-old Emily Tammen, who suffers from autism, attention deficit disorder and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The girl's joints suffer due to this disease. Emily came to the concert of her favorite singer Adele with a poster “My dream is to sing with Adele.” The singer noticed this ad and invited the girl to the stage, offering to perform the hit “Someone Like You.”

5. You don't need to be a superhero to save lives. At one of the baseball games, player Andrew McCutcheon from the Pirates team slipped his bat. It flew straight into the boy's forehead. An unknown “superhero” wearing glasses deflected the blow of the bat by putting up his hand. Having flown around the boy's head, the bat still hit him on the back of the head. But this was not at all the blow that the unfortunate guy could have received.

6. Friendship between a penguin and a human is possible. In 2001, a pensioner saved a tiny penguin. He lay dying on the rocks, covered in oil. The man picked up the poor animal, cleaned its feathers of oil and fed it fish every day until the penguin gained strength. This was the beginning of their long and strong friendship.

7. There are also firefighters among dogs. Burnt puppy Jake, rescued from a fire by Bill Linder, became a firefighter. Baby Jake was just a few weeks old when he found himself in a burning barn. He received burns on 75% of his body, which forced his owners to abandon him. Then Bill's family decided to take him for themselves. Now Jake teaches lessons with his owner fire safety in schools.

8. “You can’t see the most important things with your eyes,” said Exupery. Mr. Kuroki, a Japanese dairy farmer, spent two years trying to lift his blind wife out of depression. Having planted a giant flower bed, he pulled her outside, thereby making her smile.

9. Sometimes even a fire can end a wedding. A firefighter rescued a girl from a burning house. Unfortunately, he suffered a leg injury; doctors said that the man would no longer be able to walk normally. But 28 years later, he walked their daughter down the aisle.

10. “Five years ago I adopted a dog from a shelter that was about to be euthanized. Now this dog saves my life every day. I suffer from a neurological condition that causes seizures. My dog ​​knows in advance next attack and warns me about it."

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Are there people on our Earth who know neither wars, nor violence, nor murders? A startling discovery was made by anthropologists. In 1971, on the Philippine Islands, where, it would seem, everything had been explored far and wide, an unknown tribe of people was discovered. It lives separately and does not know that it exists the world, where there are also similar ones. This tribe was called the Tasadei. Tasadao is a mountain above the entrance to a cave on the slope of one of the hills in the wilds of the island of Mindanao. There the Tasadei spend the night.

These people have a very primitive life. Each day they live is not much different from the previous one. Waking up at sunrise, they go down to the stream to wash and have breakfast. Thanks to the rich flora and ponds teeming with tadpoles, small fish and crabs, they always have food at hand and do not need to stock up.

The Tasadays sit down on sun-warmed rocks and begin their meal, feeding each other their prey. At noon, the tribe moves into the shade and spends the rest of the day in peace and quiet.

Only at sunset they go in search of plant food and after a vegetarian dinner (lunch) they take refuge in a cave for the night. Their undisturbed sleep lasts about 12 hours.

This tribe knows neither quarrels nor enmity. When making any decision, they quickly come to a common opinion, so there is no need to appoint chiefs and elders.

Due to the fact that Tasadeans do not have a very good memory, they do not remember accidental insults and do not hold grudges against their fellows. Couples are created only for love. One marriage for life. The feeling of jealousy is unknown to this amazing people, since they also don’t have betrayals.

In this group of people everyone is equal. After all, they have no property, and they don’t know what money is.

Another remarkable quality of the Tasadei is the absence bad habits(smoking and drinking alcohol). Scientists believe that these people are good-natured and forgiving from birth.

This is how Akimushkin describes their life:

(Igor Ivanovich Akimushkin(May 1, Moscow - January 1, Moscow) - writer, biologist, popularizer of biology, author of popular science books about animal life.)

Let's see how the Tasadays spend their day, what their simple life is like.

As soon as the sun rises, the Tasadei, rubbing their eyes and stretching, slowly descend down the natural potholes and ledges of the lava tuff that makes up the foot of the cave. Mothers carry or lead their children by the hand. The Tasadei have no hierarchy, no advantage or privilege to enter and exit the cave, no ceremonial order.

Let us note here for memory that monkeys have a hierarchy. Obviously, it was also among the Neolithic people - the Cro-Magnons. But their predecessors, judging by the Tasadays, did not have it. This means that hierarchical “bureaucracy” and “honor of rank” are not genetically inherent in people, but developed later, with the formation of a primitive communal and class society (although some anthropologists believe otherwise). We will return to this issue a little later, when we talk about human aggressiveness.

After this small but important digression for understanding the foundations of human psychology, let us return to the Tasadays who awakened from sleep.

Still sleepy, smeared in soot and soot, they go down to the stream. Adults wash themselves and wash off the soot; children are bathed by their mothers.

Then the search for food begins. Tasadei do not stock up on food: the surrounding nature is generous and supplies in abundance everything necessary for food. They find their breakfast right at the doorstep of the house. Children sit on the bank of a stream and hold bags made of leaves in their hands. Men catch fish, crabs, and tadpoles with their hands (the latter are the main dish on the Tasadei menu).

Children and adults settle down where the stones are heated by the sun, where it is warmer. They eat slowly. No one claims to have the most satisfying and plentiful piece. They readily share with each other everything they caught in half an hour.

Basking in the sun. They remember with laughter the successes and failures of the morning hunt for tadpoles. Tasadeans have a short memory, as they say. They remember only recent events, and completely forget what happened 5-6 years ago. In general, good things are remembered better than bad things. Therefore, they do not hold a grudge against each other for long. Involuntary offenses are easily forgiven. I say “involuntary” because the Tasadei do not know how to deliberately cause offense.

Five hours pass unnoticed. The sun rises to its zenith, and the Tasadays move to a shady place. They sit in a close group, usually silently. They don't have any work. There is little entertainment. The midday hours are spent as if in nirvana.

However, one entertainment repeated day after day amuses them during these hours.

Although the Tasadei keep fires constantly burning in their caves, they can quickly rekindle dry moss if they die out. This is making fire (whose moss will ignite sooner!) and practice, and competition between men, and teaching children so necessary in life primitive man business.

Fire is produced by friction. A pointed stick is inserted into a recess in the board and quickly rotated back and forth in the palms until the wood begins to smoke. Immediately they press dry palm bark and moss to the hole, blow on them, and a fire breaks out! This procedure takes about five minutes.

Shortly before sunset (in the tropics this happens at about 6 p.m.), some Tasadays get up and go into the surrounding jungle in search of fruits, fruits, and most importantly, tubers of wild yams. However, their journey through the forests is not long: they do not go further than three or four kilometers from their native cave. They'll be back soon. The long leaves of uprooted yams hang in a dense pile behind the men's backs.

Yam tubers are washed in water, baked in hot ashes and eaten.

Lunch and dinner at the Tasadeans, as you can see, are vegetarian. At night, the Tasadei move into a cave to plunge into a peaceful sleep until the morning. They sleep, therefore, almost twelve hours a day, from evening to dawn.

Tomorrow will be the same as the last.

This is how the Tasadeans live “in peace with each other and in harmony with the surrounding nature.” They have no enemies either among people or in nature. Large predators are not found in the Philippines. Only snakes are afraid of the Tasadei. They don’t smoke, don’t drink alcohol, and generally don’t fight or kill. They don’t even have any weapons! And stone tools are very simple (Paleolithic type).

Tasadays do not engage in agriculture. They don't have pets either. No crafts, no clothes. Several orchid leaves fastened together replace their loincloth, which is all that covers their body.

The Tasadei have no chiefs or elders. Decisions are made jointly, after a short discussion, and then acted in solidarity. They have no property, neither rich nor poor. They don’t know what money is, what work is (in our understanding). They also do not know divorce, adultery, blood feuds or jealousy. Marriages are made for love, once and for life. And although there are more men in the tribe than women, no one breaks the strong bonds of marriage.

"Who watched them quiet life the anthropologist believes that they belong to “the gentlest people on Earth” (E. White and D. Brown).

“No, the Tasadays are just a special case,” Lorenz’s followers continue to object. “Their primitive way of life is not a primary phenomenon, but a secondary one: the Tasadays relatively recently separated from the common root of the Philippine peoples, got lost in the wilderness of the wilds of the island of Mindanao, forgot the cultural skills they possessed, and sank to a much lower level of development.

Therefore, the Tasadays cannot serve for anthropology as a model of our actual ancestor - man of the Old Stone Age. This is just a tiny “big family” of Filipinos who once left their labors and worries into the wild wilderness of the jungle. They are people who fled from people, and not the original links in human evolution.

- Well, what does it matter if the Tasadeans are genetically not an ancient link in the chain of human generations, but a modern one? Their way of life can still serve as a model of the behavior of the very first people, since the Tasadays were placed in the same living conditions as in ancient times, and because of this, according to the law of convergence, they acquired many features of life primitive people…

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Some anthropologists believe that the first people were just as meek from birth. They led the same life as the Tasadays. Later those of them who migrated to the north, to regions poor in food and rich in enemies, armed themselves with a club and a spear. But even here people remained non-aggressive for a long time. Fratricidal fights, robberies, and wars began much later with the development of the primitive communal system.

However, there is another point of view in science.

Some scientists, including such a famous ethologist as K. Lorenz, believe that aggressiveness is immanent in humans, it is a heavy legacy of our animal ancestors. Aggressiveness, according to Lorenz, will always possess a person and manifest itself in violence and other bad deeds, if society does not find another reasonable expression for it. If he doesn't find it, it will be terrible! Man's natural aggressiveness will destroy him in the end.

What's interesting here is this. The discovery of the Tasadeans and the study of their way of life tilts the opinion of most scientists in favor of the first hypothesis: man was not born with an animal nature! He is a peaceful creature in his original essence.
Let them argue...

Every person should do good deeds, no matter how global they are. Someone will say that these stars did not do anything special and in their situation everyone would have done the same, but not everyone can boast of even such a manifestation of kindness and compassion for their neighbor, because for the most part people think only about themselves.

Keanu Reeves

IN last years What came to light was that Reeves doesn't care much about money. In fact, he went so far as to give $80 million of his Matrix royalties to the special effects team and costume designers who worked on the trilogy. He explained his action by saying that he believes that the success of the film series is due to these people, and not to him.

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry has touched not just one life, but countless others with his openness about his mental health struggles. Although many see such problems as a stigma that harms their careers, Fry speaks openly about his problems and has become president of mental health charity Reason, which raises public awareness of mental illness and is a voice for those suffering from it.

Russell Brand

Brand talked about how he knows what it's like to be at the bottom of his life as a former alcoholic and heroin addict, which is why he spends time with homeless people in his area. He has been photographed and spotted countless times with homeless people - taking them to breakfast and helping them in every possible way.

Will.i.am

Will.i.am recently donated his entire salary from The Voice (approximately $750,000) to The Prince's Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) education to children in dysfunctional families Great Britain. He hopes for the same success that this program has had in his hometown, Los Angeles County, which is now open modern center STEM.

Woody Harrelson

While attending a great party in New York, Woody was approached by a homeless woman looking for alms. Instead of turning her down, Woody decided to give the woman $600. According to the Daily News, when the woman recognized the actor, she said, “Thanks Woody! White people can still jump!”

John Cena

This athlete fulfilled the most wishes for charitable foundation“Make your dream come true” - he has 400 wishes (100 of which were fulfilled from June 2013 to February 2014).

Ryan Gosling

A British journalist was rescued by an actor when she almost walked onto the road in front of a taxi in New York. She tweeted about the incident, saying she was looking the other way as a lifelong Londoner when Gosling grabbed her arm and pulled her back onto the pavement.

Mila Kunis

When a man who worked in her house collapsed on the floor from an attack, Mila came to his aid. After she supported him until the ambulance arrived, Mila even offered to go with him to the hospital to make sure he was safe.

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is known for the fact that she uses her popularity to promote self-belief, despite how different we are from others. After she heard that one of her fans committed suicide because he was mocked about his sexual orientation, she dedicated her concert to him and his photo was on the screens everywhere - it was an act of unity with the fan and other people around the world suffering in similar situations.

T.I.

This rapper gave up everything to convince a man not to commit suicide. The police tried to reason with the man to come down from the parapet. He considered it necessary to help, telling the man that everything would be fine and that not everything in the world was as bad as it seemed.

Angelina Jolie

Jolie remains a great philanthropist even after years of success and incredible popularity. She even decided to make In the Land of Blood and Honey as her directorial debut, a film telling the story of women who were subjected to mass rape during the Bosnian war. This choice was clearly not made with the aim of becoming famous, since it was filmed and written in Bosnian.

Zach Galifinakis

Zach saved a homeless woman. Mimi, a woman Zach knew from the local laundromat long before he became famous, found herself on the street. As soon as Zach found out about this, he offered to pay the apartment rent for her. He even took her with him to the premiere of the film Bachelor Party: Part III.

Patrick Dempsey

According to TMZ, the teenager lost control of his Mustang, and after the car flipped several times, it finally stopped in front of the actor's house. Dempsey ran outside to help the young driver and used a crowbar to free the teenager from the car, after which he called emergency services.

Johnny Depp

After 9-year-old Beatrice asked Depp to help her rebel against teachers, the actor came to a London school for precisely this purpose.

Tyler Perry

After hearing that a woman suffering from cerebral palsy had her customized 2000 Chrysler Town & Country stolen from her home in Georgia, director Perry offered to give her another van.

Gary Sinese

Since playing the role of Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump, Sinise has been committed to helping disabled veterans and their families. He recently took 50 war-wounded soldiers on an all-expenses-paid trip to Disneyland in California.

Tom Cruise

One day, while he was relaxing on his yacht, Cruise saw a sinking, burning sailboat. Instead of waiting for someone to save them, Tom himself swam to the sailboat and helped the victims escape.

Hollywood stars are always in the spotlight: photographers, interviews, journalists, filming, every day, as if under the gun of one large camera, which records their successes, failures, bad or good deeds, and then spreads this news around the world, providing food for thoughts or gossip. Usually people discuss the crazy or bad deeds of stars, their extravagances and obvious mistakes, while good deeds are somehow hushed up and go into the shadows. Let's try to prove that the most good people in the world- just Hollywood stars.

First among the kindest

Turns out, the kindest people in the world those related to show business and the film industry are Johnny Depp, Jerry Halliwell, Renee Zellweger, Colin Farrell, Jessica Simpson, football player David Beckham, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Oprah Winfrey. And now more about them. Rating " The kindest people in the world" was headed by the incomparable and versatile actor Johnny Depp, who, both in films and in life, always looks quite non-trivial, unusual and extremely sexy. Although his inconstancy and extravagance are known to everyone, nevertheless, Johnny has been living in happy marriage with one single woman - singer Vanessa Paradis. Star of the Pirates trilogy Caribbean Sea"and alternative cinema, Depp not long ago helped his fan, seventeen-year-old Sophie Wilkinson, come out of a coma.

The voice of a star returns from the other world

The girl was in a coma for about five months, and her parents had already begun to lose all hope that their daughter would come to her senses, having already tried literally everything. There was only one remedy left, funny at first glance - the voice of their daughter’s favorite actor, that is, Depp. They wrote a touching letter for Depp, asking him, if not to come to their daughter himself, then at least to record his voice. That's what Johnny did, recording an audio track where he parodied himself famous character- Captain Jack Sparrow. Hearing this voice, Sophie moved her legs for the first time, and then began the story of her gradual recovery.

Melody will save lives

And this story is not the only one of its kind. Former member The once popular Spice Girls group, Geri Halliwell, sang for one of her unusual fans. Jessica Knight is fourteen years old and suffered a severe stroke that left her bedridden. Jeri came to her clinic, where she sang just a couple of lines from her song, after which the girl began to control her arms and legs. Now, according to some sources, Jessica feels much better, but she just doesn’t remember what specific song the lead singer of “Pepperchinok” sang to her.

Seller of good mood

The kindest people in the world, such as actress Renee Zellweger, who is known for her films about the charming Bridget Jones, they not only save people’s lives, but also help others fulfill their wishes. One day the actress came into brand store“Wendy”, where I noticed a saleswoman looking longingly at shoes from the famous designer “Manolo Blahnik”. The actress said that she perfectly understood a woman’s desire to be beautiful always and everywhere, and that’s why she...bought these shoes, and then, when the saleswoman returned to her workplace, anonymously gave them to her, simply wrapping them beautifully and placing them on her desk.

American dream

Title " The kindest people in the world"also honored were the desperate boor Colin Farel and scandalous TV presenter Oprah Winfrey. For the past five years, Colin Farrell has been helping a man without a job or place of residence, a professional beggar named Stress, with money and clothes. And the TV personality surprised everyone at one of her shows, where she gave each viewer a car, and one homeless girl - money to get a decent education, as well as for clothes and a beauty salon. Probably, it is stories like these that make up the essence of such a phenomenon as “ American dream", when no desire is limited by the limits of fantasy.