Cancer is the fastest growing disease on the horizon. New Forms are emerging every day, and though doctors give you all the hope you hope for, telling you time and again that it will be ok, the curative rate is minuscule, and only in certain forms of cancer. For the rest it is just that, cancer – it burns a hole in your body and in your wallet. It also often strains relationships, but in the Cancer patient, it often brings a new understanding of life
A cancer survivor survives until he does because he wills it so – Medicine, Cancer Inhibitors can only help you so much.
Today is World Cancer Day 2020 and the theme is apt – ‘I am I will’
We don’t know when we might be afflicted with this disease and how, but some of these quotes from Cancer survivors may help us build up our reserves of mental strength. From Yuvraj Singh to BD Phillips, these quotes may help us fortify our future.
“Cricket is my life. Before cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I’m happy to eat and breathe normally. I’m happy to have my life back.” – Yuvraj Singh
“I think cancer came into my life as a gift. My vision is sharper, my mind clearer, my perspective realigned. I have succeeded in transforming my passive-aggressive anger and anxiety into more peaceful expressions.” – Manisha Koirala
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” – Kenji Miyazawa
“You beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.”
“Since I had cancer I’ve realised that every day is a bonus.” – Geoffrey Boycott
Cancer Quotes:
“I’m going to beat this cancer or die trying.” – Michael Landon
“Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.” – Greg Anderson
“I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.” – Jenna Morasca
“The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.” – Nikolai Lenin
“I’m in good shape. My cancer means I have lost a lot of organs and I’m a lot lighter. I have devoted myself to yoga and I’m doing handstands.” – Eve Ensler
“Hope is grief’s best music.”
“Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.” – Michael Douglas
“Working out is my way of saying to cancer, ‘You’re trying to invade my body; you’re trying to take me away from my daughters, but I’m stronger than you. And I’m going to hit harder than you.” – Stuart Scott
“Above all, cancer is a spiritual practice that teaches me about faith and resilience.” – Kris Carr
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and twice as beautiful as you’d ever imagined.”
“Beating cancer is a personal battle. It was one of the toughest opponents I have faced so far, and I think I did reasonably well. Touchwood.” – Yuvraj Singh
“You know, once you’ve stood up to cancer, everything else feels like a pretty easy fight.” – David H. Koch
“You can be a victim of cancer or a survivor of cancer. It’s a mindset.” – Dave Pelzer
Cancer Quotes
“Cancer may have started the fight, but I will finish it.”
“I’m battling cancer. It’s another battle I intend to win.” – Arlen Specter
“Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.” – Clint Eastwood
“Cancer is a word, not a sentence.” – John Diamon
“I want to see cancer cured in my lifetime. It might be.” – James D. Watson
“Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy.” – Felicia Hemans
“We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.” – Lance Armstrong
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t.”
“Now I’m fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how’s your day, and nothing is changed for me.” – Jim Valvano
“Beat cancer. Small steps every day.”
“Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life.” – Hayley Mills
“When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.” – Terri Clark
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at a time of challenge and controversy.” – Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
“Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.” – Ingrid Bergman
“I want men to know that things really do get better — and they get better fairly rapidly. Don’t get discouraged.” – George Campbell, prostate cancer survivor
“Scars are tattoos with better stories.” – Unknown
Cancer Quotes
“Hope is the physician of each misery.” – Irish proverb
“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 survivor
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston Churchill
“Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.” – Emory Austin
“What Cancer Cannot Do: Cancer is so limited. It cannot cripple LOVE. It cannot shatter HOPE. It cannot corrode FAITH. It cannot destroy PEACE. It cannot kill FRIENDSHIP. It cannot suppress MEMORIES. It cannot silence COURAGE. It cannot invade the SOUL. It cannot steal eternal LIFE. It cannot conquer the SPIRIT.”
“Cancer didn’t bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.” – Michael Douglas
“Never give up. Life is worth living. There is life after cancer.”
“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, after cancer surgery in 1978
“Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.”
“Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient.” – Jennifer Aniston
“More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.” – Sheryl Crow
Cancer Quotes
“Do not give up, the beginning is always the hardest.”
“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.” – Hippocrates
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, no fear unmingled with hope.” – Baruch Spinoza
“Cricket is my life. Before cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I’m happy to eat and breathe normally. I’m happy to have my life back.” – Yuvraj Singh
“Optimism is the foundation of courage.” – Nicholas Murray Butler
“A cancer diagnosis changes you forever. You always remember the moment it came.”
“The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” – C.C. Scott
“Never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” – Ambrose Redmoon
“Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”
“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
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” – Cayla Mills
“Life is mostly froth and bubble, but two things stand like stone: friendship in another’s trials and courage in your own.” – Princess Diana
“Cancer is that awful word we all fear when we go to the doctor for a physical exam, but in that brief dark moment we hear it the world we live in and the people we share it with begin to illuminate things we did not even pay attention to.” – BD Phillips
