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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
American
Psychologist
Born:
Jul 8
,
1926
Died:
Aug 24
,
2004
Death
Life
Love
People
Will
You
Related authors:
Abraham Maslow
Angela Duckworth
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Beautiful
Struggle
Suffering
People
Most Beautiful
Defeat
Way
Those
Out
Beautiful People
Most
Known
Loss
Depths
Who
Found
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
People
Darkness
Light
Beauty
Shine
Sets
Sun
Out
Windows
Only
Glass
True
True Beauty
Like
Within
Revealed
Stained
Sparkle
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Silence
Learning
Yourself
Events
Mistakes
Everything
Touch
Given
Purpose
Know
Blessings
Learn
Within
Get
Us
Coincidences
Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
You
Peace
Learning
Happy
Yourself
Maturity
World
Better
Wealthy
Seeing
About
More
Perfect
Powerful
Like
Reaching
Around
Understand
Making
Little
Meant
Meant To Be
Your
Lessons
Suddenly
The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Depression
Anger
Learning
Grief
Acceptance
Denial
Feeling
Lost
Live
Frame
Tools
Our
Framework
Some
Part
Identify
Makes
Linear
Up
Timeline
Five
May
Stops
Stages
Us
Bargaining
Help
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Time
Day
Will
Live
Our
Earth
Way
Our Time
Only
Had
Know
Knowing
Understand
Limited
Limited Time
Truly
Up
Begin
Then
Fullest
Each
Each Day
Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Nature
Grief
Grace
Denial
Feelings
Our
Way
Only
Handle
Pace
Us
Much
Helps
Letting
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Spiritual
Live
Living
Our
Worry
Release
Alive
Definitions
Must
Physical
Facade
Physical Body
Rather
Concern
End
Selves
Behind
While
Conform
Us
Should
Body
Who
Designed
Inner
External
It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Death
Anger
Natural
Important
Unfair
System
Find
Take
Attempting
Feel
Reaction
Judging
Without
Leaving
Loss
May
Unfairness
Loved
Loved One
Forms
Meaning
Your
Many
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Wisdom
Word
Thought
Believe
Every
Consequences
Our
Solely
Responsible
Throughout
Lifetime
Accept
Choices
Deed
Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Love
Time
Happy
Fear
Try
Guilt
Power
Become
Seek
Learn
Understand
How
Answers
Discover
Loss
Truly
Quest
Trying
Meaning
Who
Lessons
Search
Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Love
Death
Strength
Silence
Words
Will
Sit
Patient
Those
Neither
Beyond
Know
Nor
Frightening
Goes
Dying
Body
Painful
Moment
Who
Cessation
Peaceful
It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Time
Day
Will
Live
Our
Earth
Way
Our Time
Only
Had
Know
Knowing
Understand
Limited
Limited Time
Truly
Up
Begin
Fullest
Each
Each Day
We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Journey
You
Own
Our
Earth
Bit
Tell
Must
Given
More
Never
No-One
Part
Put
Journeys
Learn
Discover
Lot
Handle
Than
Personal
May
Just
Just A Little Bit
Little
Little Bit
Them
Your
Lessons
Things
Here
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Me
Celebrate
Sky
Release
Balloons
Die
Graduated
Graduation
Children
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Nature
You
Beauty
Would
See
Carving
Never
True
True Beauty
Shield
Canyon
Should
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Human Being
Sky
Only
Vast
Disappear
Reminds
Lights
Falling
Up
Forever
Endless
Human
Being
Us
Moment
Brief
Brief Moment
Star
Peaceful
Million
Watching
Night
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Soul
Doubt
Way
Shadow
Beyond
Know
Understood
Dies
Body
The truth does not need to be defended.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Truth
Does
Need
Defended
We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Love
Day
Generation
Gift
Fear
Free
Greatest Gift
Our
Responsible
Free Choice
Day One
Also
Make
Greatest
Built
Children
Curse
Mankind
Choice
Next
Choices
Next Generation
Teach
Lives
Need
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
World
Parents
Glorious
Own
Nice
Believe
Our
Spirits
More
Instead
Supposed
Housewife
Opinionated
Been
Lecturer
According
Up
Than
Author
American
Southwest
Ended
Psychiatrist
Loving
Far
Who
Swiss
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Service
You
Doctor
Matter
Free
Become
Slums
Take
How
Goes
As Far As
Form
Social
Far
Much
Worker
Working
Your
Million
Things
Position
People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
People
Signs
Become
Complete
Crippled
See
Vital
Longer
Blind
Deaf
Hear
Exist
After
Again
We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Good
People
World
Will
Good People
Assume
Often
Ills
Suffer
When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death
Fear
Impossible
Guilt
Older
Enough
Omnipotence
Omnipotent
Our
Diminishes
Possible
Strongest
Powerful
Wishes
Make
Begin
Loved
Loved One
Realize
Really
Grow
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life
Death
Day
You
Fear
Nothing
Live
Say
Greatest
Always
Experiences
Then
Your
Each
Each Day
Ever
Right
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