Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation

06/08/2026

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." -

Maya Angelou

06/03/2026

"We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us." -

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

05/23/2026

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal, and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again, but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.

The time we take following a loss is important in grief and grieving as well as in healing. This gift of grief represents a completion of a connection we will never forget. A time of reflection, pain, despair, tragedy, hope, readjustment, reinvolvement, and healing.

The time after a significant loss is full of the feelings that we usually have spent a lifetime trying not to feel. Sadness, anger, and emotional pain sit on our doorstep with a deeper range than we have ever felt. Their intensity is beyond our normal range of human emotions. Our defenses are no match for the power of the loss. We stand alone with no precedent or emotional repertoire for this kind of loss. We have never lost a mother, father, spouse, or child before. To know these feelings and meet them for the first time brings up responses from draining to terrifying and everything in between. We don't know that these foreign, unwelcome feeling are part of the healing process. How can anything that feels so bad ever help to heal us?

With the power of grief comes much of the fruits of our grief and grieving. We may still be in the beginning of our grief, and yet, it winds its way from the feelings of anticipating a loss to the beginnings of reinvolvement. It completes an intense cycle of emotional upheaval. It doesn't mean we forget; it doesn't mean we are not revisited by the pain of loss. It does mean we have experienced life to its fullest, complete with the cycle of birth and death. We have survived loss. We are allowing the power of grief and grieving to help us to heal and to live with the one we lost.

That is the Grace of Grief.
That is the Miracle of Grief.
That is the Gift of Grief." -

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler (Authors of the book: On Grief and Grieving- Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss)

05/12/2026

Andrew MacPherson, Senior Strategic Advisor to NPHI, initiated Day 2 of our 2026 Summit by reflecting on the hospice movement's beginnings and the guiding vision. He shared a letter from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross to Dame Cicely Saunders, detailing a "secret ambition" to bring hospice care to America.

Today, this vision continues through the care NPHI members provide in communities nationwide. He also acknowledged this year as the 100th anniversary of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's birth, highlighting her legacy and the opportunity for NPHI to promote awareness of high-quality, person-centered advanced illness and end-of-life care, while extending this community-based vision beyond local markets and informing decisions at the highest levels of government.

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05/08/2026

Sometimes strength looks like standing alone… quietly, gracefully, without needing to be seen.

As Elisabeth Kübler-Ross taught us, solitude is not the absence of love—it is often where we rediscover it within ourselves.

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05/03/2026

"So concentrate on love while you are still around and teach your children early Unconditional Love." - Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

04/24/2026

Just sharing some of Elisabeth-Kubler Ross's quotes that stand out for their wisdom and strength. Her words always offer hope and positive perspective to most of us.

Feel free to share your favorite saying of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross that you remember. Quotes she said in the past that you always kept in your mind and heart.

04/22/2026

"Flowers are like human beings, they thrive on a little kindness..." - Fred Streeter