Best quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Life
Checkout quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on Life
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‟ 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
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‟ 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
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‟ 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
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‟ 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
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‟ Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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‟ 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
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‟ I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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‟ I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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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.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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‟ Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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‟ The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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‟ 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
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‟ I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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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.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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‟ It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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‟ For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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‟ The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross