Cancer Support

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

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. – Author Unknown

My cancer scare changed my life. I’m grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. – Olivia Newton-John

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. – John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of Jo

We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair, “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories, 1986

Women agonize… over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend’s breast. – Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds

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

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death. – Author Unknown

Cancer is a journey, but you walk the road alone. There are many places to stop along the way and get nourishment — you just have to be willing to take it. – Emily Hollenberg

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. – Emmanuel

Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. – Emory Austin

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. – Barbara Bloom

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. – Anne Frank

Never, never, never give up. – Winston Churchill

Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there. – Author Unknown

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. – Plato

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

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. – William Faulkner

We acquire the strength we have overcome. – Ralph Waldo Emerson