Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Quotes

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

I don't feel fear anymore, in any form.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

I think sometimes we think faith is about having all the answers. It isn't. But it's the thing that keeps you steady and in peace in the midst of storms.

Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.

Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Whatever happens, we can deal with it if we admit that it's happening and so on. So to be comfortable with what is - that is a real superpower.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.

Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating.

You can be in the storm, but don't let the storm get in you.

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.