Illinois ladies facing bc

Realize that each soul is related to you. When you recognize that everyone is part of you, you will find you cannot withdraw from another.

Elsie Morgan

Happy are they who still love something they loved in the nursery:
They have not been broken in two by time; they are not two persons,
but one, and they have saved not only their souls but their lives.

G.K. Chesterton

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning
light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food
and the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving
thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Tecumseh

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement
and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy
and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all
moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

Frederick Buechner

We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.

Regina Brett

"The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give." -William Arthur Ward

I am from Illinois and thought I would post a hello here. I live in a suburb of Chicago. ChiSandy I can relate to your posts about our crazy weather! Looks like we wiill see freezing rain by us this afternoon.

I go to see my Onc at 2:00 today. I am on Anastrozole since Dec 14th. Soon to be e adding Ibrance. 😕

I had my surgery at Advocate Christ Hospital last year. I haven't been to any support groups yet. I am stage IV.

Hope all is well for everyone today....stay safe & warm.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Isaac Newton

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

Witney Griswold.

When our life is filled with the desire to see holiness in everyday life, something magical happens; ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.

Harold Kushner

"The light of meaning is within us. Happiness, peace, and love are energies that vibrate though the universe. And you and I are channels through which the light of meaning flows."

Have we really learned enough about caring for ourselves if we have not learned the very deep value of caring for others. We really are just one -- different shades, different textures, different lives all feeding back to the heavens as one.

We are all citizens of one world, we are all of one blood.
To hate people because they were born in another country,
because they speak a different language, or because they
take a different view on this subject or that, is a great folly.
Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human. . . .
Let us have but one end in view: the welfare of humanity.

Johann Amos Comenius

People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who allow the circumstances of life to break their ideal. To fall beneath one's ideal is to lose one's track in life; then confusion rises in the mind, and that light which one should hold high becomes covered and obscured, so that it cannot shine out to light one's path. -Hazrat Inayat Khan

By slowing down and relishing the unfolding of every experience, you aren't choosing to be less accomplished or productive than others. You're choosing to be accomplished and productive in ways they may not even understand. You're choosing to change what's within your own heart and mind, thereby becoming a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem. By no longer rushing through, you're choosing to stop focusing so much of your energy on the wanting and yearning, the wishing it was done, the frustration with what hasn't happened yet; and to make, instead, the most of every experience as it unfolds at its own pace.

Nea Justice