Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quotes

Simple people with less education, sophistication, social ties, and professional obligations seem in general to have somewhat less difficulty in facing this final crisis than people of affluence who lose a great deal more in terms of material luxuries, comfort, and number of interpersonal relationships. It appears that people who have gone through a life of suffering, hard work, and labor, who have raised their children and been gratified in their work, have shown greater ease in accepting death with peace and dignity compared to those who have been ambitiously controlling their environment, accumulating material goods, and a great number of social relationships but few meaningful interpersonal relationships which would have been available at the end of life.

Vive de tal forma que al mirar hacia atrás no lamentes haber desperdiciado la existencia.
Vive de tal forma que no lamentes las cosas que has hecho ni desees haber actuado de otra manera.
Vive con sinceridad y plenamente.
Vive.

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

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 — that we will begin to live each day to the fullest.

Love has to come from within, if it is to come at all. And I'm still not there.

And death has a cruel way of giving regrets more attention than they deserve.

"Sometimes we consciously or unwittingly adopt new roles as circumstances change and are hurt by the result. For instance, a couple may say, "It was so wonderful before we got married. Once we were married, something went wrong?" When the couple was together before, they were just being. The moment they got married they took on the roles that had been taught to them, trying to "be a husband" and "be a wife." On some subconscious level they "knew" what a husband or wife should be like and tried to act accordingly instead of being themselves and discovering what kind of spouses they wanted to be."

Even the love for and from our families and friends is based on expectations and conditions.
Inevitably, these expectations and conditions are not met, and the details of real life become the thread that creates a nightmare.

We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us.

You are alone. There is a wall now where none existed before, standing between you and the rest of the world.

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.

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

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.

And yet I know that in her death, she has found the freedom she could not find in life. She is no longer confined to a room, a bed, and a body that no longer works.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from.