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CherylinOhio
CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

Cancer I did not give you the right,
To invade my body and take a bite.
This is my body and with all my might,
I will prevail with one hell of a fight.
To the cancer inside, I will battle and kill.
For that is my body's God-given will.
To my cancer, these words I do send.
Your life is short and near the end.

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    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 John Cheever, 1989, concerning his cancer and its treatment

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.”
    ~ Dennis Leary

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet."
    ~Michael Douglas

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.
    Kris Carr

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  • TectonicShift
    TectonicShift Member Posts: 752
    edited May 2014

    I love these! Thank you, Cheryl!!

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited November 2012

    Not really a quote, but I had lunch with my aunt recently. She is 75 and had just become stage IV a few months prior, having had a bunch of cancers and cancer treatments about year before that. I was marveling at her stoic endurance of a second round of taxotere, and she just smiled and said, "Well, I don't want to leave yet." The taxotere worked and she is currently NED.

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    You are welcome!! I was feeling like I needed to read something motivating!! I have one posted on my computer at work and keep looking at it as a reminder to be strong!!

    Momine that sounds like a good quote to me!!!

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  • Mamita49
    Mamita49 Member Posts: 538
    edited November 2012

    Two of my best quotes are.

    Time does not exist, clocks do.

    Some people are so poor, the only thing they have is money.

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  • TectonicShift
    TectonicShift Member Posts: 752
    edited May 2014

    Don't borrow trouble.

    Don't suffer future pain.

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  • volleymom77
    volleymom77 Member Posts: 92
    edited November 2012

    Thanks I needed that

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited November 2012

    Women are like tea bags. Put them in hot water and they get stronger. Eleanor Roosevelt

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited November 2012

    Written by Edward B. Pusey (1800-1880), an English churchman:

    If we wished to gain contentment, we might try such rules as these:
    (1) Allow yourself to complain of nothing, not even of the weather.
    (2) Never picture yourself under any circumstances in which you are not.
    (3) Never compare your own lot with that of another.
    (4) Never allow yourself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been, or were,
    otherwise than it was, or is. God Almighty loves you better and more wisely
    than you do yourself.
    (5) Never dwell on tomorrow. Remember that it is God's, not yours. The heaviest part
    of sorrow often is to look forward to it. The Lord will provide.

     

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited November 2012

    I like that, words to live by. Thanks sbelizabeth!

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  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited November 2012

    Thanks, Kay G.  Numbers 2 and 5 are particularly meaningful for me.  A vivid imagination for a woman who has endured breast cancer treatment can be an uncomfortable thing!

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    Many good quotes here~  I am trying to find one for a tattoo, I like "Play Hard, Fight Harder" Or "Fight Hard, Play Harder", not sure which yet.

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    Cancer is not a death sentence, but rather it is a life sentence; it pushes one to live." Marcia Smith

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2012

    Almighty God loves you so much, he has your picture on the front of his refrigerator!

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  • Karina121293
    Karina121293 Member Posts: 370
    edited November 2012

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    Amen!

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    Gather strength from life's storms. 

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    It is generally agreed among psychiatrists that voodoo can actually kill. A voodoo priest can actually cause the death of a person, provided that both the priest and the subject were born and raised in the culture. In this case, the power of belief is ultimate and will win out over the body’s defense mechanisms. The question has been asked, "What is the modern equivalent of voodoo that some oncologists use to kill their patients?" And the answer has been given, "Those damn statistics". Emotions can suppress the immune system. These would include fear, grief, disappointment, stress, frustration, unresolved conflict and the list goes on. Admitting that the mind can kill, the question becomes one of the equal and opposite ability to cure.
    Gerald W. White who     healed himself of renal cell cancer (kidney cancer) thanks to “the efficacy of a combination of prayer, meditation and guided imagery”

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is just out of grasp. But if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Am I getting carried away with these quotes??? I just love them!!

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    And one more....

    Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
    Napoleon Hill

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2012

    Cheryl, I love them too!



    The Bible says, "A merry heart does good like a medicine " Proverbs 22:17



    Did you know that when you sing or laugh, the body actually releases anabolics, which bring healing?



    So, keep em coming Girls!



    Blessings

    Paula

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  • Kay_G
    Kay_G Member Posts: 3,345
    edited November 2012

    It's not what I have been through in my life that defines who I am, it's how I I got through it that has made me the person I am today.

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    "Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."
    ~ Nido Qubein

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited November 2012

    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

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited December 2012

    Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
    Life is beauty, admire it.
    Life is bliss, taste it.
    Life is a dream, realize it.
    Life is a challenge, meet it.
    Life is a duty, complete it.
    Life is a game, play it.
    Life is a promise, fulfill it.
    Life is sorrow, overcome it.
    Life is a song, sing it.
    Life is a struggle, accept it.
    Life is a tragedy, confront it.
    Life is an adventure, dare it.
    Life is luck, make it.
    Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
    Life is life, fight for it.
    Mother Teresa

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  • CherylinOhio
    CherylinOhio Member Posts: 623
    edited December 2012

    Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck

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