Sunday, January 19, 2020

Death by E. Kubler-Ross. Quotes VI

 -Death follows no predictable timetable, but chooses its own time and place.
-One of the hardest kinds of death to accept is that of one's child.
-When someone you love dies, you have lost part of yourself.
-In the end we are always alone, but it is not the number of people who surround us in our dying, not is it the number of years that we have lived that is significant; it is the quality of life and the courage and strength we have shown that ultimately gives us the strength to face this final journey alone and with dignity.
-Her awareness cost her her complacency.
-It is the promise of death and the experience of dying, more than any other force in life, that can move a human being to grow.
-We are meant for something more in this life than simply eating, sleeping, watching television, and going to work five days a week.
-There is life after death. We will be reborn again one day in order to complete the tasks we have not been able or willing to complete in this lifetime.
-It was there in the midst of suffering that I found my goal. It was there in the midst of poverty, isolation and suffering that I lived more than in all the years before or afterwards.
-Where does a human been get the inner strength and equanimity to face crisis in life? What turns people with the same human potential into beautiful, caring and loving, self-sacrificing human beings?

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