Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quotes

You may also be angry with yourself that you couldn’t stop it from happening.

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.

Forgive yourself.

"Y por primera vez en mi vida, la salida fue la de la fe . Esta fe llegaba del saber profundo de que yo disponía de la suficiente fuerza y del coraje como para poder sufrir sola esta agonía y la certeza de que nunca se nos da más de lo que podemos aguantar. De pronto comprendí que sólo tenía que cesar en mi lucha, transformar mi resistencia en sumisión y decir sencillamente "si"."

It is very important that you do only what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may live in a shabby place, 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.

A ship exists on the ocean, even if it sails out beyond the limits of our sight. The people in the ship have not vanished; they are simply moving to another shore.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

This time, I heard a loud voice, literally heralding the reality that my daughter was never coming back. This time the depression had no walls, ceiling, or floor. It felt even more endless than before and, once again, I had to deal with this old familiar guest. I learned the only way around this storm was through it.” •

You can become a channel and a source of great inner strength. But you must give up everything in order to gain everything. What must you give up? All that is not truly you; all that you have chosen without choosing and value without evaluating, accepting because of someone else’s extrinsic judgment, rather than your own; all your self-doubt that keeps you from trusting and loving yourself or other human beings.

It might be helpful if more people would talk about death and dying as an intrinsic part of life just as they do not hesitate to mention when someone is expecting a new baby.

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

We will never like this reality or make it okay, but eventually we accept it.

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.

Todas las teorías y toda la ciencia del mundo no pueden ayudar a nadie tanto como un ser humano que no teme abrir su corazón a otro.

if you go and dance at a lot of weddings,
youll cry at a lot of funerals.
if you were at the beginning of many moments,
youll be there when they end.
if you have a lot of friends,
youll experience that many break ups.
if you think that the loss you feel is great,
its because youve attempted that many things in your life.
if you made a lot of mistakes,
its better than having lived without doing anything at all.
it is not unhappiness to be unable to reach a star,
unhappiness is that you don't have a star that you cannot reach.