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1 " 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 Kübler-Ross
2 " The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. "
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , On Life After Death
3 " Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. "
4 " 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. "
5 " I think that 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. "
6 " Religious patients seemed to differ little from those without a religion. "
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , On Death and Dying
7 " The 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. "
8 " The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. "
9 " All events are blessings given to us to learn from. "
10 " 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. "
11 " Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. "
12 " 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. "
13 " 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. "
14 " 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. "
15 " We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties "
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living
16 " 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? "
17 " Today, in our “shut up, get over it, and move on” mentality, our society misses so much, it’s no wonder we are a generation that longs to tell our stories. "
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
18 " The more you learn, the harder the lessons get. "
19 " Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body. 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 "
20 " When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out. "
