Famous Quotes

"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 on Time

More quotes about Time

• "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

  Roger Babson on Time

• "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

  Abraham Lincoln on Time

• "Lost time is never found again."

  Benjamin Franklin on Time

• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

  Jean de La Fontaine on Time

• "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

  C. S. Lewis on Time

More quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• "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."

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

• "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."

• "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 not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, 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."