Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.”

“Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'”

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”

“Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.”

“I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.”

“We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.”

“If people would get in touch with their spirits, they would be able to heal, emotionally and physically.”

“I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.”

“I only believe in what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears.”

“When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt.”