Cancer And Hope Quotes

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

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. 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.

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

You beat Cancer by how you live.

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.

QUOTES BOUQUET: You Have To Fight Through Some Bad Days To Earn The Best Days Of Your Life

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

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.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.