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

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Beauty Canyon Carving Never See Shield Should True True Beauty Would You

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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.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Begin Death Diminishes Enough Fear Grow Guilt Impossible Loved Loved One Make Older Omnipotence Omnipotent Our Possible Powerful Realize Really Strongest Wishes

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Consciously or not, we are all on a quest for answers, trying to learn the lessons of life. We grapple with fear and guilt. We search for meaning, love, and power. We try to understand fear, loss, and time. We seek to discover who we are and how we can become truly happy.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Answers Become Discover Fear Guilt Happy How Learn Lessons Life Loss Love Meaning Power Quest Search Seek Time Truly Try Trying Understand Who

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

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Believe Ears Eyes Hear My Own Only Own See I See

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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

Topics: Alive Behind Body Concern Conform Death Definitions Designed End External Facade Inner Live Living Must Our Physical Rather Release Selves Should Spiritual Us While Who Worry

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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Also Built Children Choice Choices Curse Day Day One Fear Free Free Choice Generation Gift Greatest Greatest Gift Lives Love Make Mankind Need Next Next Generation Our Responsible Teach

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Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Acceptance Any Being Faced Go Human Human Being Kind Loss Natural Normal Shock Through Way Will

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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Being Brief Death Disappear Endless Falling Forever Human Human Being Lights Million Moment Night Only Peaceful Reminds Sky Star Up Us Vast Watching

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It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: Actual Always Attributed Earth Else End Ending Here Imagine Inconceivable Intervention Life Malicious Our Ours Outside Own Someone Unconscious

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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.

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Topics: About Aids All My Work Beginning Decades Disease Early Eighties Epidemic Had Knew Little Patients Peculiar Previous Right Spontaneous Started Totally Two Very Were Whole Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: July 8th, 1926

Died: August 24th, 2004

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