153 Quotes by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

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.

Education makes you humble, it doesn't make you proud.

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.

You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.

L'amour est notre expérience du divin, de la sainteté sacrée. Il est la richesse qui se trouve autour de nous. C'est à nous de le prendre.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.