Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Graduation, Death, Learning

• 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

  "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.

• 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, Rest In Peace, Children

• We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Progress, Complaining

  "Voyage of Purpose : Spiritual Wisdom from Near-Death Back to Life" by David Bennett and Cindy Griffith-Bennett, (p. 6), 2011.

• 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

  Love, Death, Pain

• 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

• 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

  "The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization". Book by Jim Clemmer (p. 84), 2003.

• 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

• 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

  "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch, Yoga Journal, Issue 11, pp. 18-20, November - December 1976.

• 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 of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Beautiful, Death, Pain

• 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

• 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

• It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Moving, Car

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

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Teacher, Inspiration

• And after your death, when most of you for the first time realize what life here is all about, you will begin to see that your life here is almost nothing but the sum total of every choice you have made during every moment of your life. Your thoughts, which you are responsible for, are as real as your deeds. You will begin to realize that every word and every deed affects your life and has also touched thousands of lives.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Real, Choices

• Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Life, Death, Nature

• 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

• Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Self, Growth

• 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.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Lessons, Clue

• 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 count.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Commitment, Needs

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler (2012). “Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

• When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Education, Pain

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