Cancer Quotes (49) Spiritual Sayings
Summary: Definition of Cancer. Cancer is a type of disease or disorder related to malignant tumours (that is: body cells gone haywire and forming growths which are harmful for the body itself) - This section of my website is dedicated in memory to my father who passed away from cancer in 2001... a fighter till the end and my mother with your strength who over came her esophagus cancer.
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Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
~ Jennifer Aniston
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have
~ Cayla Mills
Cancer is a word, not a sentence
~ John Diamon
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
~ Ambrose Redmoon
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
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
~ C.C. Scott
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
~ Jim Valvano
If you have a friend or family member with breast cancer, try not to look at her with 'sad eyes.' Treat her like you always did; just show a little extra love.
~ Hoda Kotb
I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
~ Patrick Swayze
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
~ Maya Angelou
If you are utterly close to someone battling cancer, there is one sure thing you can say to make them feel even a shred of a whiff of a modicum of better: “I will be here for you in any way you need, in any way I can.”
~ Dan Duffy
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
~ Jim Valvano
Cancer changes your life, often for the better. You learn what’s important, you learn to prioritize, and you learn not to waste your time. You tell people you love them.
~ Joe Siegel
Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.
~ Michael Douglas
It’s about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
~ Robin Roberts
More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.
~ Sheryl Crow
The worst thing in your life may contain the seeds of the best.
~ Joe Kogel
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
Cancer is not a death sentence, but rather it is a life sentence; it pushes one to live.
~ Marcia Smith
During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.
~ Melissa Bank
Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.
~ Lawrence Leshan
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
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~ Winston Churchill
What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what's important. I mean, I don't sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It's not worth it.... And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it's all small stuff.
~ Joel Siegel
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
~ Dave Pelzer
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
~ Cayla Mills
Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.
~ Sheryl Crow
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
Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.
~ Sheryl Crow
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
~ Lance Armstrong
If children with terminal cancer can find love, joy, beauty and peace in their day – and they do – why don't we?
~ Dan Zadra
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
~ Patricia Neal
Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
~ George Eliot
At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Cancer is a word, not a sentence.
~ John Diamond
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
~ Voltaire
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
Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts – it’s what you do with what you have left.
~ Hubert Humphrey
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
~ Merle Shain
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
~ Joseph Campbell
The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.
~ C. C. Scott
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
~ Helen Keller
The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.
~ Allen Klein
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.
~ Dalai Lama
What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
~ Oscar Wilde
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