Cancer Quotes, Sayings of Encouragement
Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. ~ Emory Austin
My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. ~ Olivia Newton-John
What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff. And what Gilda said is, if it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it. But there is a downside.
During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous. ~ Melissa Bank
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~ Nikolai Lenin
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. ~ Author Unknown
Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene
Supports the mind supports the body too.
~ John Armstrong
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ~ Winston Churchill
As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. ~ Emmanuel
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~ C.C. Scott
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something has suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~ Barbara Bloom
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~ Anne Frank
Never, never, never give up. ~ Winston Churchill
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. ~ Plato
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~ Winston Churchill
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. ~ William Faulkner
We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. ~ Georg Groddeck
It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~ Christopher Reeve
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
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~ Emily Dickinson
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. ~ Eric Bentley
Hope is grief's best music. ~ Author Unknown
Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~ George Weinberg
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope. ~ Author Unknown
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~ Herm Albright
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~ Anthony J. D'Angelo
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~ Voltaire
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~ William James
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~ Robert Brault
Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~ Author Unknown
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. ~ Wernher von Braun
I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~ Author Unknown
I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope. ~ Voltaire
We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. ~ Author Unknown
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. ~ Thomas Carlyle
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~ Hugh Downs
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. ~ Alex Karras
It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy. ~ Author Unknown
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. ~ Maori Proverb
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~ Paavo Nurmi
A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. ~ William Arthur Ward
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith. ~ Author Unknown
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ~ Victor Hugo
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing. ~ Larry Dossey
Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man. ~ James H. West
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body. ~ Marcel Proust
There is much in the world to make us afraid. There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid. ~ Frederick W. Cropp
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~ Katherine Paterson
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