Elisabeth Kübler-Ross > Quotes

“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. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-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 Kübler-Ross

“The most beautiful people I've known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Life After Death

“There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“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.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“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, as if it was the only one we had.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“The most beautiful people we have ever known are those who have known defeat,
known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have pulled themselves out of
the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding
of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern.
Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“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.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Hay una voz interior, si estamos dispuestos a escucharla, que nos dice con toda certeza cuándo adentrarnos en lo desconocido”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“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".”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, La Muerte Un Amanecer

“L'amour est notre expérience du divin, de la sainteté sacrée. Il est la richesse qui se trouve autour de nous. C'est à nous de le prendre.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“El conocimiento va muy bien -le dije- pero el conocimiento solo no va a sanar a nadie. Si no se usa.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“Tal vez el principal obstáculo que nos impide comprender la muerte es que nuestro inconsciente es incapaz de aceptar que nuestra existencia deba terminar.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“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.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“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.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“En el interior de cada uno de nosotros hay una capacidad inimaginable para la bondad, para dar sin buscar recompensa, para escuchar sin hacer juicios, para amar sin condiciones.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“No se puede sanar al mundo sin sanarse primero a sí mismo.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying

“La vida es ardua. La vida es una lucha. La vida es como ir a la escuela; recibimos muchas lecciones. Cuanto más aprendemos, más difíciles se ponen las lecciones.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying