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.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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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.
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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.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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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.
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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.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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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.
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I don't fear anything now.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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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.
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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.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
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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.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly.
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I am a human being. I have anxiety. I have doubts. And I'm not afraid to put it out there.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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The same fight Aretha (Franklin) was fighting was the fight I was fighting and the same fight that Sam Cooke fought 40 years before me was still going on, so I said I think it’s time to properly address this.
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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.
