Cancer Quotes and thoughts

MJB · October 2005

MYTH******YOU'LL GAIN A HEALTHY PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE.

"I thought cancer would automatically make me centered; that it would turn me into a saint; that immediately, I would get my priorities straight and stop sweating the small stuff. But pretty quickly, I realized that I was still stressing about work, fighting with my boyfriend, yelling at my sister."....Erin Zammett, author of "My (So-Called)Normal Life," Leukemia survivor.

Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · October 2005

MYTH******DOCTORS KNOW BEST

"The worst piece of advice I ever got was,"Just listen to your doctor and do what she tells you." I needed to do my own research and talk to people who'd been through it."....Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition,breast cancer survivor.
Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · October 2005

"I kept hearing that your attitide is the most important thing.When I had complications and my cancer returned, I kept thinking, WHY CAN'T I DO THIS BETTER? IS THIS MY FAULT?"....Wendy Harpham MD, author of "HAPPINESS IN A STORM: FACING ILLNESS AND EMBRACING LIFE AS A HEALTH SURVIVOR, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor.
Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · October 2005

"The day before my diagnosis,I thought I was healthy,and the day after,I knew that I wasn't. There's a sense of loss for the rest of your life,knowing that your health is flawed."....David H. Johnson,MD,deputy director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor.
Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · November 2005

"After I started treatment, I seemed to be getting more cellulite and I asked my doctor, "Could this be a side effect?" He was like, "WELL, UH...NO."...Erin Zammett leukemia survivor

Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · November 2005

"I had a radical hysterectomy,an appendectomy,and I had about 50 lymph nodes removed. My doctors told me that I would be up and around,feeling fine in 6 weeks. Six months later,I still didn't feel like myself. I thought I was a failure. I thought, I am the worst patient!"...Fran Drescher,actress, author,uterine cancer survivor.
Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · November 2005

"THE TRIUMPHANT PATIENT'S CREED"

Hope reigns in my life today.
My illness does not rule me.
Daily I seek to acknowledge the physical,
Be positive in the mental,
Transcend the emotional,
And anchor in the spiritual,
Knowing that God's peace is my goal.
Thank you,Lord, for today's blessings!

The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation...Exodus 15:2

Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · November 2005

"Anybody out there with any Cancer quotes or thoughts to share with us? Come on ladies lets keep this post going for Patti.I'm sick of listening to myself quoting and thinking."
Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · November 2005

"I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire."....
Lance Armstrong
Love and warm thoughts.MJB

Anonymous · November 2005

okay, mjb, i will share mine as i always enjoy reading yours....

these are the thoughts that i put together right after my diagnosis, one year ago today, and have continued to read and heed since:

I am willing to release the pattern of consciousness that created cancer.
I now discover how wonderful i am. I choose to love and enjoy myself.
I am in the process of healing.
I am a survivor.

I choose to view the cancer that was in my body as a teacher and a wake-up call in my life and take responsibility for my health.

I allow my body to return to its natural, vibrant health. The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future. I do not want to carry the past. I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well. I am healing.

All of the changes in life that lie before me are positive ones. I am safe.

My mission, should i choose to accept it, is to live a long healthy life, to be a friend to my friends for years to come, and to love my family as they get older and babies are born into it, and to tell stories when I am very old and gray about how I beat breast cancer.

Thankful,truly I am....

Laura

MJB · November 2005

God Bless you Laura, you go girl, your a woman after my own heart.Thank you for for sharing with us your deep rooted thoughts.
LOve and warm thoughts.MJB

missingmymom · November 2005

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Author: Dr. Robert Schuller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming of it.

Author: Helen Keller

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.

Author: Dale Carnegie

If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Author: Vincent Van Gogh

MJB · November 2005

"For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened."...Larry Lucchino

Love and warm thoughts.MJB

MJB · November 2005

"I had a brain cancer specialist sit in my living room and tell me that he would never take radiation if he had a brain tumor. And I asked him, 'but, do you send people for radiation?' and he said, of course. 'I'd be drummed out of the hospital if I didn't."....Ralph Moss

Something to think about isn't it? MJB

MJB · December 2005

"Dying is a wild night and a new road."..Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was present to the process of her dying when she said these words.
She seemed to be fully with herself and, at the same time,open to what would come. When we think of our own death, most of us hope that we can be open to the moment.
All too often, the idea of dying and the experience of slowly killing ourselves through overwork is something with which we have become comfortable. It is the living of our lives at each moment that terrifies us and that we seek to avoid.
Luckily,we can get through this terror and come to know that we have all the caring support we need to live our lives.

Love and warm thoughts.MJB

beachcottage · December 2005

"The most important word
in the English language is hope.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage · December 2005

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop, than when we soar.

William Wordsworth

xoxo,
Patti

MJB · December 2005

"There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it.For example,I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt."....Sharon Forrester

Love and warm thoughts.MJB

beachcottage · December 2005

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage · December 2005

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."

- John Wayne

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

- Orison Swett Marden

xoxo,
Patti

MJB · December 2005

An individual doesnt get cancer, a family does. ~ Terry Tempest Williams
Love and warm thoughts.MJB

beachcottage · December 2005

"When we have hope,

we discover powers within ourselves

we may have never known

The power to make sacrifices, to endure,

to heal, and to love.

Once we choose hope, everything is possible."
--Christopher Reeve--

xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage · December 2005

"The Big 'C'"
by Kathy Cawthon, Survivor
copyright 1997

The big C I heard someone call it.
Another just whispered the word.
That we dont even dare to say cancer out loud
Gives it power it doesnt deserve.

So Im giving that letter new meaning
And refusing to give in to fear.
Im reclaiming the power for you and for me
By saying these words loud and clear:

Let the "c" be for cure and compassion.
Let it stand for the candles we light
And a chorus of voices shouting You 'can'!
To all who will take up this fight.

Let the "c" be for cash contribution.
Credit or check will work, too!
Let it stand for commitment and check-ups and cheer
And the children counting on you.

Let it mean that we know our Creator
Is beside us each step of the way,
And remind us to call on His strength and His love
And to celebrate every new day.

To everyone facing this challenge,
I say its a fight we can win.
Tell all who will listen that, starting today,
The "c is for COURAGE, my friend.

xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage · January 2006

What is Courage?

Celebrating Life
Opening Yourself
Understanding the Risks
Realizing your Limitations
Accepting the Challenge
Going the Distance
Encouraging Others
AUTHOR UNKNOWN

XOXO,
PATTI

beachcottage · January 2006

Cancer got me over unimportant fears,
like getting old. ~ Olivia Newton-John

xoxo
Patti

beachcottage · January 2006

"Fairy tales are more than true -
not because they tell us dragons exist,
but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
~ G. K. Chesterton

xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage · January 2006

On the mountains of truth
you can never climb in vain
either you will reach a point higher up today,
or you will be training your powers
so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage · January 2006

"The capacity for hope
is the most significant
fact of life.

It provides
human beings
with a sense of destination..
the energy to get started
and the will to strive on." Author Unknown

xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage · January 2006

Often a man gets in a position
where he wants to run,
but there is no place to run to.

So he goes ahead
with the only course open to him,
and people call that courage ```John Rockefeller Jr.

xoxo,
Patti

beachcottage · February 2006

"What is real?
Generally, by the time you are REAL
most of your hair has been loved off,
and your eyes drop out,
and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.

But these things don't matter at all,
because once you are REAL,
you can't be ugly
except to people who don't understand....but once you are REAL you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
passage from The Velveteen Rabbit by margery williams

xoxo
Patti

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