Hopeful Quotes
What we would say to cancer if we could
What we say to one another
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright."
~Robin Roberts
"Don't miss your life."
~Valerie Harper
"Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet."
~Michael Douglas
More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possiblity of
living beyond cancer."
~Sheryl Crow
It is difficult to say what is impossible,
for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today
and the reality of tomorrow.
~Robert H. Goddard
Never give up
Life IS worth living
There is life after cancer.
Life is not waiting for the storm to pass -- but go out and play in the rain!
Thank God for everything -- never, never, never forget you are loved.
You're OK even if your skin doesn't fit the way it used to!
Hope is a reality to keep the faith that you will survive and be alive!!!
Courage
Faith
Strength
Believe in yourself
Love yourself.
Faith
Strength
Life
Family
Love
Understanding
Never give up HOPE!
"You go through loss, anger, depression and eventually you discover hope. To share this discovery that's the best thing. It puts value and meaning to the diagnosis."
"You have to figure out your own way to deal with this diagnosis. You learn about yourself, what you are made of. This can be extraordinary and you want to share this, help others who go through the same thing."
"Cancer puts you to the test and it also brings out the best in you."
"A cancer diagnosis changes you forever. You always remember the moment it came.
"Survivors Day helps me suck up the positives from others."
Don't lose hope.
When the sun goes down, the stars come out.
~~Unknown
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
~~Franklin D. Roosevelt
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, the other represents opportunity.
~~John F. Kennedy
Faith is daring to go beyond what the eyes can see.
~~Anonymous
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other one thing.
~~Abraham Lincoln
What Cancer Cannot Do
Cancer is so limited...It cannot cripple love.
It cannot shatter hope.
It cannot corrode faith.
It cannot eat away peace.
It cannot destroy confidence.
It cannot kill friendship.
It cannot shut out memories.
It cannot silence courage.
It cannot reduce eternal life.
It cannot quench the Spirit.
~~Author unknown
So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline.
I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.
-Christopher Hitchens, from January 2012 Vanity Fair
"Cancer changes your life,
often for the better. You learn what's important, you learn
to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell
people you love them. My friend Gilda Radner (who died of
ovarian cancer in 1989 at age 42) used to say, 'If it wasn't
for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and
everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the
downside."
-Excerpted from PEOPLE Weekly's August 6, 2001 issue. -
Joel Siegel, Good Morning America movie critic
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the
things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch
the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain, American writer
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how
close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison, inventor
"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life,
acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can
do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man."
- Euripides
"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy
to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment,
you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions,
goals, and values are in balance."
- Brian Tracy
"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and
think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some."
- Robert Fulghum, "All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and
order and rhythm and harmony."
- Thomas Merton, French monk, poet
"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few
tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."
- Bette Midler, American singer, actress
"Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation
is to keep his balance."
- Pope John Paul II
"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to
be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To
live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures
is what I strive for."
- Jane Rule, American novelist, critic
"Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance
of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."
- Peter Ustinov, English actor, author, producer, director
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting."
- Karl Wallenda, world famous tightrope walker
"You can't smooth out the surf, but you can learn to
ride the waves."
- Author unknown
"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're probably
right"
- Henry Ford
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single
step."
- Chinese proverb
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of
playing a poor hand well."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to
sail my ship."
- Louisa May Alcott
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn
out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless
of how it turns out."
- Barbara Johnson
"None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the
greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily
bread - the art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles
than in growing with them."
- Bernard M. Baruch
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never, never, never give up"
- Winston Churchill
"Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there
seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie
"Things turn out best for people who make the best
of the way things turn out."
- John Wooden
"At the timberline where the storms strike with the
most fury, the sturdiest trees are found."
- Anonymous
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that
count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot
be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity
for kindness."
- Seneca
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not
to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate
troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
- Buddha
"Better to light one small candle than to curse the
darkness."
- Chinese Proverb
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the things you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every
fear is a freedom."
- Marilyn Ferguson
"Dealing with it is the operative word.
I found myself at seven years not battling it.
Not struggling with it.
Not suffering from it.
Not breaking under the burden of it, but dealing with it."
- Michael J. Fox referring to his Parkinson's Disease
Barbara Walters interview, 20/20 December 4, 1998
"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so
great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something
tomorrow."
- Orison Swett Marden
"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and
achieves the impossible."
- Anonymous
"The important thing is not that we can live on
hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."
- Harvey Milk
"Look to this day, for it is life. For yesterday is
already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well
lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every
tomorrow a vision of hope."
- Sanskrit Proverb
"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you
that counts - it's what you do with what you have left."
- Hubert Humphrey, after cancer surgery in 1978
"The worst thing in you life may contain the seeds of
the best."
- Joe Kogel, 21-year melanoma survivor, writer and actor
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars..."
- Charles A. Beard
"Cancer is a journey, but you walk the road alone. There
are many places to stop along the way and get nourishment
- you just have to be willing to take it."
- Emily Hollenberg, cancer survivor
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