My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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 must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.
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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
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!
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 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.
You beat Cancer by how you live.
If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.
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.
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