The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Ring the bells that still can ring.

Beautiful people do not just happen
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.

Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Once you choose hope, anything‘s possible