Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes


There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety and guilt. It's true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it's more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.


Citations

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, and David Kessler. Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living. Scribner, 2000.

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
  • Born: July 8, 1926
  • Died: August 24, 2004
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Psychologist

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model".