Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Short Quotes

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Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.'

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Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

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If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.

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Our only purpose in life is growth. There are no accidents.

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You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.

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The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

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The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally.

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Live, so you do not have to look back and say: "God, how I have wasted my life."

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I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.

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Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

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Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you will never see the beauty of their carvings.

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

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Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

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When we face the worst that can happen in any situation, we grow. When circumstances are at their worst, we can find our best.

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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.

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We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

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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.

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We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

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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.

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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

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Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed.... If you stay focused, then you learn your lessons.

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I have learned there is no joy without hardship. There is no pleasure without pain. Would we know the comfort of peace without the distress of war?

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When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.

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If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

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Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement.

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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon.... It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.

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Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive — a peculiar form of denial of our own mortality?

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For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

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Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal.

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Every individual human being born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person, unlike any who has ever existed before or ever will exist again.

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