Cancer QuotesCancer quotes and sayings of encouragement and hope for cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones. Cancer affects us all. When someone we know hears a diagnosis of cancer the world stops for a moment. All thoughts and concerns go to that person and the journey they are about to undertake. I know how it feels to be diagnosed with cancer. It happened to me in 2003 when I was told I had a lethal form of leukemia. I think my friends and family needed more comforting than I did. It is my sincere hope that anyone facing that ordeal finds comfort in these words I’ve collected. The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen... as the whispering beat repeats: be...gin, be...gin, be...gin. It's really that simple. Just begin... again. Royce Addington The future you see is the future you get. Robert G. Allen True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. Walter Anderson I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days. Lance Armstrong 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. Lance Armstrong Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. Emory Austin Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Joseph Campbell 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 Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. Tom Clancy Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood. Norman Cousins The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started. Norman Cousins Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure. Abraham Cowley Cancer is a word, not a sentence. John Diamond It is a fact of life that we find ourselves in unpleasant demoralizing situations which we can neither escape nor control. We can keep our morale and spirits high by using both coping and hoping humor. Coping humor laughs at the hopelessness in our situation. It gives us the courage to hang in there, but it does not bring hope. The uniqueness of hoping humor lies in its acceptance of life with all its dichotomies, contradictions, and incongruities. It celebrates the hope in human life. From one comes courage, from the other comes inspiration. Cy Eberhart Pessimism never won any battle. Dwight D. Eisenhower The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. F. Scott Fitzgerald Obstacles are those frightful things we see when we take our eyes off our goal. Henry Ford One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. Robert Fulghum 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 A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking. So as you keep thinking this thought, you keep vibrationally attracting relative to that thought. So you confirm your own beliefs again and again and again and again and again. That’s why someone who believes in cancer can confirm that belief, or someone who believes in robbery can confirm that belief. So everything is a sort of confirmation of belief. Abraham-Hicks 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 The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. John Fitzgerald Kennedy There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. Clare Boothe Luce Every crisis offers you extra desired power. William Moulton Marston A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. Patricia Neal 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 Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. Norman Vincent Peale Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible for you to do. Pope John XXIII Change always comes bearing gifts. Price Pritchett Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein Consider calling it a challenge rather than calling it a crisis. Mary Anne Radmacher While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. Gilda Radner Be realistic. Plan for a miracle. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. Bernice Johnson Reagon Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are. Rachel Naomi Remen The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. C.C. Scott Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. Samuel Smiles Hope is medicine for a soul that's sick and tired. Eric Swensson Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. Voltaire What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. Oscar Wilde If children with terminal cancer can find love, joy, beauty and peace in their day – and they do – why don’t we? Dan Zadra Return from Cancer Quotes and Sayings about Cancer to Quotes Listed by Subject
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