"I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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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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"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."
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"It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it."
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"I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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"I have a bit of a rebellious nature."
-John Cusack
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-Willie Stargell
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"There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder."
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"Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!"
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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