Hopeful Quotes and other.

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   Hi,

Am realizing there's lot of good info on the various comprehensive cancer centers websites.
Found a site with  Hopeful Quotes.   Some philosophical.
Thought everyone would not find all the quotes helpful.
But there might be one or two quotes that might be helpful at some time for some.
The intent of posting the quotes is to be helpful......not to preach or be a Pollyanna!

From the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center website:

Hopeful Quotes

Faith is daring to go beyond what the eyes can see.
~~Anonymous

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
~~Abraham Lincoln

What Cancer Cannot Do
Cancer is so limited...
It cannot cripple love.
It cannot shatter hope.
It cannot corrode faith.
It cannot eat away peace.
It cannot destroy confidence.
It cannot kill friendship.
It cannot shut out memories.
It cannot silence courage.
It cannot reduce eternal life.
It cannot quench the Spirit.
~~Author unknown

So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.
-Christopher Hitchens, from January 2012 Vanity Fair

Marian Bryant, cancer survivor, offers a message of hope and love.
"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. My friend Gilda Radner (who died of ovarian cancer in 1989 at age 42) used to say, 'If it wasn't for the downside, having cancer would be the best thing and everyone would want it.' That's true. If it wasn't for the downside."
-Excerpted from PEOPLE Weekly's August 6, 2001 issue. - Joel Siegel, Good Morning America movie critic

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain, American writer

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison, inventor

"The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man." 
- Euripides

Martha Anderson, cancer survivor, describes how she used humor to get through her cancer treatment.

"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance." 
- Brian Tracy

"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."
- Robert Fulghum, "All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony." 
- Thomas Merton, French monk, poet

"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes."
- Bette Midler, American singer, actress

"Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance." 
- Pope John Paul II

"My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for." 
- Jane Rule, American novelist, critic

"Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares." 
- Peter Ustinov, English actor, author, producer, director

"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." 
- Karl Wallenda, world famous tightrope walker

"You can't smooth out the surf, but you can learn to ride the waves."
- Author unknown

Mark Colter, cancer survivor, offers a story of hope to others dealing with cancer.

"Whether you think you can or you can't, you're probably right"
- Henry Ford

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step."
- Chinese proverb

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
- Louisa May Alcott

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."
- Barbara Johnson 

"None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread - the art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them."
- Bernard M. Baruch

"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never, never, never give up"
- Winston Churchill

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie

"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out."
- John Wooden

"At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found."
- Anonymous

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart."
- Helen Keller

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
- Seneca

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
- Buddha

"Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the things you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom."
- Marilyn Ferguson

"Dealing with it is the operative word.
I found myself at seven years not battling it.
Not struggling with it.
Not suffering from it.
Not breaking under the burden of it, but dealing with it."
- Michael J. Fox referring to his Parkinson's Disease
Barbara Walters interview, 20/20 December 4, 1998

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
- Orison Swett Marden

"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible."
- Anonymous 

"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."
- Harvey Milk 

"Look to this day, for it is life. For yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
- Sanskrit Proverb

"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

"The worst thing in you life may contain the seeds of the best."
- Joe Kogel, 21-year melanoma survivor, writer and actor

"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars..."
- Charles A. Beard

"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

http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/living/quotes.shtml

The following is a quote on hope from:
Book:  Anatomy of Hope by Jerome Groopman MD    
" Each disease is uncertain in its outcome and within that uncertainly we find real hope, because a 
tumor has not always read the textbook, and a treatment can have an unexpectedly dramatic 
impact. This is the great paradox of true hope. Because nothing is absolutely determined, there 
is not only reason to fear but also reason to hope." 
He also says: "Hope is a belief and expectation." 

There is a pamphlet: "You Have the Right to be Hopeful"
Publication of the NCCS (National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship.
http://nccs-old.pub30.convio.net/resources/publications/hopeful.pdf

There have been other quotes, verses, poems etc on other forums which I cannot find right now.
If you have posted a quote, verse, poem, etc.......including your own personal quotes.....please
consider re-posting here to add to this thread of "Hopeful Quotes and other".
"and other" was added so others may add helpful quotes (etc) which may not deal with hope but
may be helpful.

With caring and hopeful thoughts,
Grateful for today...............Judy

PS: For those looking for mainly spiritual quotes, you may like to see the Spiritual Support thread:

              http://forum.tnbcfoundation.org/spiritual-support_topic4926.html

Edited by Grateful for today - Aug 06 2013 at 10:24pm