Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes
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.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Malachy McCourt
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
H. P. Lovecraft
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Napoleon Hill
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Walter Raleigh
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
Gary Johnson
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
Fatou Bensouda
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
Vincent Bugliosi
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
Patrick Chappatte
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
Viggo Mortensen
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So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Haniel Long
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I don't fear anything now.
G. Gordon Liddy
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
Ignatius of Antioch
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
J. D. Pardo
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You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in.
Ian Mckellen
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
Eamon de Valera
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I don't know any kid that's not afraid at some point going to bed with the lights off, totally. That's why they make nightlights.
Chris Pine
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In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.
Emile Hirsch
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The universe was a vast machine yesterday, it is a hologram today. Who knows what intellectual rattle we'll be shaking tomorrow.
R. D. Laing
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I'm usually a No. 10, and the thing I most enjoy is helping my team-mates and creating goal-scoring chances for them.
Dimitri Payet
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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