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Choice
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We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Death
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Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Identity
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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.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Inspirational
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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.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Life
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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Mistakes
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There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Self-love
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The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Service
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As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Books by and about Elisabeth Kubler-Ross