Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"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."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Beautiful people do not just happen."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not 'get over' the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Our grief is as individual as our lives."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion to death."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"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."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The most beautiful people Ive known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you'll learn to live with it."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you’ll learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. It is a reaction to change: life-altering change. Those who grieve are not weak; they are strong people with an overabundance of sensitivity and humanity in facing an overwhelming situation."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"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."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross