Quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.”

“Were all lonely for something we dont know were lonely for”

“If you look deep within, you will find a brilliant light. To many, far too many, squint and turn away from the shine. Let your eyes adjust, and bathe in the radiance.”

“Its 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.”

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings”

“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.”

“We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankinds greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.”

“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well”

“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.”

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while were 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.

I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.

There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

Mankinds greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

Our concern must be to live while were 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.

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

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

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.

Ive told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is natures way of letting in only as much as we can handle.