Elisabeth Kubler-Ross famous quotes

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Inspiration #People #Self Respect

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

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Being Strong

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 into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Grief #Moving #Thinking

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 #Inspirational #Death

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 #Self

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

#Love #Death #Dream

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 the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Life #Doing What You Love #Soul

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

#Death #Each Day #Fear Of Death

There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Fear #Hate #Opposites

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.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Spiritual #Creativity

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

#Life #Believe #Choices

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.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Facts #Accepting

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 where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Butterfly #Grieving

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Giving #Listening #Rewards

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.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Soul #Body

dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Lonely #Dying

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 #Children #Sky

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Life #Thank You #Spiritual

My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Taught #Patient

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

#Death #Doctors #Matter

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 it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Loss #Reality #Grieving

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 our spirit, and supplies passion to our lives.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Love You #Passion #Heart

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 vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Pain #Grieving #Forever

I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#People #Dying #Who Cares

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Men #Fearless #Enemy

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

#Grief #Grace #Feelings

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 love? At these moments you can either hold on to negativity and look for blame, or you can choose to heal and keep on loving.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Hate #Appreciate

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Change #Looks

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Life #Death #Nature

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

#Inspirational #Life #Death

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 many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Running #Zero

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

#Love #Life #Family

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Spiritual #Health

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 they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Hurt #Pain #Grieving

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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 prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Medicine #Suffering #Care

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Love #Spiritual #Caring

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Moving On #Death #Women

Grief is real because loss is real. Each grief has its own imprint, as distinctive and as unique as the person we lost. The pain of loss is so intense, so heartbreaking, because in loving we deeply connect with another human being, and grief is the reflection of the connection that has been lost. We think we want to avoid the grief, but really it is the pain of the loss we want to avoid. Grief is the healing process that ultimately brings us comfort in our pain.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Pain #Real #Grief

Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Mean #Issues #Dying

Whether you know it or not, one of the most important relationships in your life is with your Soul. Will you be kind and loving to your Soul, or will you be harsh and difficult? Many of us unknowingly damage our Souls with our negative attitudes and actions or by simple neglect. By making the relationship with your Soul an important part of your life, however, by honoring it in your daily routine, you give your life greater meaning and substance. Use your experiences-all of them-as opportunities to nourish your Soul!
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Attitude #Opportunity #Simple

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Worry #Alive

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

#Grief #Acceptance #Feelings

If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Mystical #Ready #Mysticism

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.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Spring #Butterfly

Children who die young are some of our greatest teachers. We are allowed to die when we have taught what we came to teach and when we have learned what we came to learn.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Teacher #Children #Taught

We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Years #Perspective #Missing

God, how I have wasted my life.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Gratitude #Grateful #Blessing

A woman needs to know about blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. And she needs to know the kinds of things she can do to stay healthy.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Blood #Healthy #Needs

Grief is not just a series of events, stages, or timelines. Our society places enormous pressure on us to get over loss, to get through grief. But how long do you grieve for a husband of fifty years, a teenager killed in a car accident, a four-year-old child: a year? Five years? Forever? The loss happens in time, in fact in a moment, but its aftermath lasts a lifetime.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Husband #Children #Teenager

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Age #Glad #Old Age

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

#Book #Writing #Psychology

Our only purpose in life is growth.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Growth #Purpose #Life Is

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.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Giving #Feminist #Insanity

There are dreams of love, life, and adventure in all of us. But we are also sadly filled with reasons why we shouldn't try. These reasons seem to protect us, but in truth they imprison us. They hold life at a distance. Life will be over sooner than we think. If we have bikes to ride and people to love, now is the time.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Dream #Distance #Love Life

Real love doesn't die. It's the physical body that dies. Genuine, authentic love has no expectations whatsoever; it doesn't even need the physical presence of a person. ... Even when he is dead and buried that part of you that loves the person will always live.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Real #Expectations #Needs

When life puts you through a tumbler, it's your choice whether you come out polished or crushed.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Choices #Crushed

Death is the great transition.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death #Transition

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

#Loss #Judging #Leaving

I'm going to dance in all the galaxies.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Afterlife #Galaxy

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Children #Role Models #Needs

Negativity can only feed on negativity.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Negativity

There is no problem that is not actually a gift.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Problem #No Problem

The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Lessons #How To Love #Ultimate

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Children #Giving #Choices

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

#Losing A Loved One #Dying #Wonderful

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

#Teacher #Losing A Loved One #Fighting

I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Memories #Lying #Knowing

I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Powerful #Artist #Want