To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it, to be proud that he can do it on his own strength. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross More Quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross More Quotes From Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I think modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross pain unconditional-love thinking Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross procrastination knowing death Even though I had a good income from my lectures, no one would give me a loan. The insanity almost drove me to sympathize with the feminist movement. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross feminist giving insanity Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross free-choice mankind choices 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. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross each-day ifs death When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross pain education death Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross clue lessons death Beautiful people do not just happen Elisabeth Kubler-Ross appreciation beautiful beauty We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross effort suffering feelings 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. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross generations goal mother It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross alive worry death Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross dies age glad We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross greatest-fear role-models children Our only purpose in life is growth. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross growth purpose life-is I look for mystery and try to decipher it while knowing it is an impossible task. I look for memory, where Mystery lies. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross knowing memories lying Death is the great transition. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross transition death 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 life-lesson guilt loss The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross importance life facts A woman needs to know about blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol. And she needs to know the kinds of things she can do to stay healthy. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross healthy blood needs 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. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross issues dying mean
