Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quotes

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.

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.

Nor could I have imagined that afterward I would spend the rest of my life explaining that death does not exist.

«La muerte no es más que una transición de esta vida a otra existencia donde ya no hay dolor ni angustia.

You are what you are, not your dis-ease, not what you do. Life is about being, not doing.

La medicina tiene sus límites, realidad que no se enseña en la facultad. Otra realidad que no se enseña es que un corazón compasivo puede sanar casi todo

La vida acaba cuando hemos aprendido todo lo que tenemos que aprender.

The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

They explained their concerns and she said, “I feel a kind of isolation that you’ll never be able to understand. What you see is a mere fraction of what’s happening inside, but at least my inner and outer worlds are reflecting each other. You wouldn’t want me to throw worlds off balance, would you?

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.

We do things hopefully because they add life to our living, but not with the illusion they will help us escape death when our time comes.

Forgive yourself.

How, then, do we know when a patient is giving up “too early” when we feel that a little fight on his part combined with the help of the medical profession could give him a chance to live longer? How can we differentiate this from the stage of acceptance, when our wish to prolong his life often contradicts his wish to rest and die in peace? If we are unable to differentiate these two stages we do more harm than good to our patients, we will be frustrated in our efforts, and will make his dying a painful last experience.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

When someone is telling you their story over and over, they are trying to figure something out.