Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

It is important to feel the anger without judging it, without attempting to find meaning in it. It may take many forms: anger at the health-care system, at life, at your loved one for leaving. Life is unfair. Death is unfair. Anger is a natural reaction to the unfairness of loss.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

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.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

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.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

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.

Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

There are no mistakes no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.