Quote of the day...☺️

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” 

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"There's always the unexpected." - I can't remember the character's name, he was a British major in the movie "Bridge Over the River Qwai" - will look it up.

I also get a lot of inspiration from military quotes and attitudes when dealing with cancer. I found that the nice, loving, gentle side of me gets in the way of dealing with this miserable disease and its treatments, so have generally adopted the military attitude for facing treatment, and the Zen/Buddhist/Christian approach for living life in general. Thanks for the Patton quotes! And I so love coming here to see all the quotes and thoughts whenever I can. Thanks again, Ebru, for starting this!

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."     Anne Frank

"Hope" is the thing with feathers—
That perches in the soul—
And sings the tune without the words—
And never stops—at all—

~Emily Dickinson

This isn't a quote, but I'd like to share it anyway.  I have always loved the lyrics of this song from the opera Hansel and Gretel.  It's called "The Evening Prayer".  There are lots of recordings of it on you tube- check it out.  It's been especially comforting lately.  

When at night I go to sleep,

Fourteen angels watch me sleep.

Two my head are guarding

Two my feet are guiding

Two are on my right hand

Two are on my left hand

Two who warmly cover

Two who o'er me hover

Two to whom 'tis given

To guide my steps to heaven.

Sleeping softly, then it seems

Heaven enters in my dreams;

Angels hover round me,

Whisp'ring they have found me; 

Two are sweetly singing,

Two are garlands bringing, 

Strewing me with roses

As my soul reposes.

God will not forsake me

When dawn at last will wake me.

like, ebru....

ebru.....you are a RIOT!!!!  Your latest quote certainly has that element of truth to it!

Amy, at some point after receiving the stage iv diagnosis, I read Fran Drescher's book "Cancer Shmancer"; she had been diagnosed with uterine cancer.  That's where I came across that Emily Dickinson poem, and it really spoke to me.

Ebru, you are truly one messed-up lady!  I can always count on you for giving me a good belly laugh! (Or as the Japanese say about the Americans: "a horse laugh" that shows your teeth and everything!).

Bon, I like your quote today. And I am getting motivated to go check out my own collection of poetry books ....

"I don't try to be difficult; it just comes naturally." - on my t-shirt, author unknown

After a string on his violin broke at the beginning of a concert, Itzhak Perlman found a way to play a symphonic piece with just three strings, saying this to the audience who gave him a standing ovation:

“Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”

Tina

Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us
faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness.

Gustav Flaubert

...It’s determination to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to
open your heart and soften, determination not to withdraw.

Pema Chodron

Poor planning on your part does not consitute an emergency on my part.   (I don't know where to attribute)