"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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"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.“
-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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"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."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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"Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings."
-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."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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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 prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
-Susan Smith
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
-Dennis Nilsen
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Adolf Hitler
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"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
-Lydia Sigourney
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
-John Beecher
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