Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

In my search to find myself, I’d found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

I tend to say faith is believing in life, and as I love life, I try to do the best with it, make it as serene and joyous as possible.

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

We're a new generation of people. We need to be happy. We need to love each other. We need to accept each other for who we are and stop judging each other. Live life and love. Stop judging just to keep yourself secure. Look deeper. There's always something deeper than what it is.

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

I love myself.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.