“We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.”
“Cancer may have started the fight, but I will finish it.”
“More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.”
“Without belief, we would be left with nothing but an overwhelming doom, every single day. And it will beat you. I didn’t fully see, until the cancer, how we fight every day against the creeping negatives of the world, how we struggle daily against the slow lapping of cynicism.”
“Cancer is a word, not a sentence.”
“You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.”
“One of the things that can help people with cancer is having something that you really look forward to doing, so that you can focus on that while the treatments are going on. I guess it’s like saying, ‘I have unfinished business left before I die.”
“Nah. I’m a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I’m fine.”
“Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.”
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
“Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it’s just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.”
“Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.”
“Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.”
“Since I had cancer I’ve realised that every day is a bonus.”
“Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.”
“I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.”
“Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don’t forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.”
“Who can say they have been through cancer twice and beat it? Confront the world, Aundrea. You’re alive. Be proud of the strong woman you are and stop hiding behind your wig.”
“Cancer is the be-all and end-all of the sport, and the only thing you can do is show up to the game with your jersey on.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have”
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
“Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.”
“The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.”
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t.”
“Cancer… the process of creation gone wild, I thought.”
“Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.”
“I am praying hard for the day that Cancer is just a Zodiac Sign and no longer a Disease…”
“Cancer is not a single disease, and it almost certainly can’t ever be addressed with a single magical potion.”
“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
“Births and cancer treatments are so expensive, it’s a luxury to live, a privilege to die.”
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
“Cancer is not a straight line. It’s up and down.”