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Letter "E" » Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes
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«Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'»
«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.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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«We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Medicine
| Keywords:
depersonalize, depersonalized, diminishing, humanitarian, medicine, profession, prolonging, respected, The Service
«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.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Death and dying,
Value
| Keywords:
highly, originate, originate in, originating, spiritual death
«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.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| Keywords:
conform, conform to, definitions, designed, external, facade, physical body, physical death, release, selves, spiritual death, The Spiritual
«Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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cessation, frightening, functioning, moment of silence, peaceful, The Silence
«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.»
«I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
balloons, celebrate, graduated, graduation, graduations, release
«Dying is an integral part of life, as natural and predictable as being born. But whereas birth is cause for celebration, death has become a dreaded and unspeakable issue to be avoided by every means possible in our modern society. Perhaps it is that»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
avoided, cause of death, celebration, celebrations, dreaded, integral, integral part, issue, modern society, natural causes, predictable, The Celebration, unspeakable
«I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.»
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
| Keywords:
care for
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