Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Quotes

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

However healthy you think you are, remember that vegetarians die too.

Forgive them if you need to,

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.

If we could combine the teaching of the new scientific and technical achievements with equal emphasis on the interpersonal human relationships we could indeed make progress, but not if the new knowledge is conveyed to the student at the price of less and less interpersonal contact

The idea that letting go may be positive can be difficult until we realize that much of life is supposed to be lived with ease. We are not supposed to be in situations where we are banging our heads against the wall.

en la muerte no hay dolor, miedo, ansiedad ni pena. Sólo se siente el agrado y la serenidad de una transformación en mariposa.

Somos culpables de haber destruido muchos dones de la naturaleza y de haber perdido toda espiritualidad.

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.

We have to look at our relationships and ask, “Is the love I give and receive based on how love was defined for me when I was a child? Is this the kind of love I wish to give and receive? Is it the kind of relationship I really want?

Why should I focus all my time on being productive so that someday I can enjoy my life? I'm enjoying it now.

When we look back in time and study old cultures and ­people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful to man and will probably always be

Lots of my dying patients say they grow in bounds and leaps, and finish all the unfinished business. But assisting a suicide is cheating them of these lessons, like taking a student out of school before final exams. That's not love, it's projecting your own unfinished business