Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

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• We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of…
• There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heats our soul, energizes…
• The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with…
• Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that…
• Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness…
• Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will…
• Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving…
• If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds…
• Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their senses and feelings…
• We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to…
• 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,…
• 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…
• When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.
• There is no joy without hardship. If not for death, would we appreciate life? If not for hate, would we know the ultimate goal is…
• You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose…
• We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how…
• 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…
• We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.
• There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering…
• 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…

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