Cancer Survivor Quotes

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  B. C. Forbes

  Jealousy, Cancer, Jealous

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Cancer

  "Why I'm not angry at Lance Armstrong" by Sally Jenkins, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Cancer, Anger

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  Michael N. Castle

  Cancer, Second Chance, Survivor

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• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Cancer

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Jan. 1970

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• I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Inspirational, Cancer, Grateful

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• Winning isn't the end of the world

  David Pleat

  Letting Go, Being Single, Breast Cancer

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• I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

  Wanda Sykes

  Inspirational, Cancer, Unhappy

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• I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it.

  Rue McClanahan

  Cancer, Survivor, Breasts

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• I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Cancer, Lucky, Persons

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• I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Cancer, Race, Survivor

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

  David Hackworth

  Cancer, Fighting, Cells

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• 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.

  Melissa Bank

  Inspirational, Distance, Cancer

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• Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Morning

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• Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Cancer, Fate, Survival

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Stars, Powerful, Cancer

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• Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Cancer, Yale

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• It may look like the difficulty is going to defeat you. But you need to keep telling yourself, "This sickness can't take my life." "This cancer can't defeat me." "No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny."

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

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• I am safe and secure. I exhale any anxiety and inhale calm. As my world expands so do my heart and mind. I am willing to stay open and accept all the miracles and abundance the universe has to offer me.

  Kris Carr

  Inspirational, Heart, Acceptance

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Dec 20, 2013

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• I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.

  Kris Carr

  Happiness, Being Happy, Thankful

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Dec 12, 2013

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• I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

  Julie Gold

  Cancer, Hopeful, Littles

  Interview with Angela Page, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.

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• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

  Petrarch

  Friendship, Cancer, Suspicion

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• An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40.

  Matthew Lesko

  Cancer, Breasts, Screening

  Matthew Lesko, Mary Ann Martello (1999). “Free Stuff for Busy Moms”, Information USA Incorporated

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• I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

  Jodi Rell

  Cancer, Mortality, My Own

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