Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss American psychiatrist

“Life is a school in which you grow and perfect yourself. We should think of our trials and hardships as opportunities to learn by, as fertilizer from which to grow flowers. Each obstacle can be seen as a test, so that one passes from the second grade on through a series of learning experiences until the final graduation, death. One is forged in the crucible again and again in a series of ‘little deaths’ as we go through life’s agonies and losses.” (from a speech, quoted in “Messenger of Love” by Lennie Kronisch in the Yoga Journal, Nov.-Dec. 1976 issue)

July 8, 1926-Aug. 24, 2004