Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes - Page 5

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.

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

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.

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

Beautiful people do not just happen

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.

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.

Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.

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

God, how I have wasted my life.

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

Memories are the only real gifts we can leave our children.

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

Our only purpose in life is growth.

I'm going to dance in all the galaxies.

How do the geese know when to fly to the sun?

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 here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

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.

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 mortality?

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.

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

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.

Death is the great transition.

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