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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 those depths.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Beautiful Beautiful People Defeat Depths Found Known Loss Most Most Beautiful Out People Struggle Suffering Those Way Who

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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

Topics: Beauty Darkness Glass Light Like Only Out People Revealed Sets Shine Sparkle Stained Sun True True Beauty Windows Within

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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

Topics: Blessings Coincidences Events Everything Get Given Know Learn Life Mistakes Purpose Silence Touch Us Within Yourself

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Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: About Around Better Happy Learning Lessons Life Like Little Making Maturity Meant Meant To Be More Peace Perfect Powerful Reaching Seeing Suddenly Understand Wealthy World You Your Yourself

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The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Acceptance Anger Bargaining Denial Depression Feeling Five Frame Framework Grief Help Identify Learning Linear Live Lost Makes May Our Part Some Stages Stops Timeline Tools Up Us

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The simple life on the farm was everything to me. Nothing was more relaxing after a long plane flight than to reach the winding driveway that led up to my house. The quiet of the night was more soothing than a sleeping pill.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: After Driveway Everything Farm Flight House Led Life Long Me More Night Nothing Pill Plane Quiet Reach Relaxing Simple Simple Life Sleeping Soothing Than Up Winding

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The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Learn Lesson Love Only Others Ourselves Ultimate Unconditional Unconditional Love Us Well Which

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It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Anger Attempting Death Feel Find Forms Important Judging Leaving Life Loss Loved Loved One Many May Meaning Natural Reaction System Take Unfair Unfairness Without Your

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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, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Begin Day Each Each Day Earth Fullest Had Know Knowing Limited Limited Time Live Only Our Our Time Then Time Truly Understand Up Way Will

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Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Denial Feelings Grace Grief Handle Helps Letting Much Nature Only Our Pace Us Way

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: July 8th, 1926

Died: August 24th, 2004

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