Cancer Journey Quotes

#1. I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

Olivia Newton-John

#2. It's important to cultivate friendships. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, as a human you are a social being. For the sake of your mental and emotional health, it's important to be honest about and honor your need for meaningful connections.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#3. Your life is shaped by the thoughts and experiences you choose - and make no mistake, the decision is always yours. I promise, when you learn to be conscious and in control of what you are focusing on, you can begin to create high vibrational experiences, which will transform and heal your life.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#4. I will live a hope-filled life every day. I will handle my problems as opportunities in a different, more effective manner, based on the power of advanced mathematics; You + God = Enough

Zig Ziglar

#5. His was the holiest face I ever saw. My very name turned holy on his tongue. If he had bade me rise and follow to the end of time, I would have gone. If he had bade me die for him, I would have died. When I deserved it least, God gave me most. I think it was the savior's face I saw.

Frederick Buechner

#6. A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Mark Twain

#7. I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Richard Powers

#8. This is the story of how Dad lived with his lung cancer. But it is much more. Through his illness and the miracles we experienced, I came to see that Dad's was not just a journey. It was a journey home. Home to God.

Joseph M. Hanneman

#9. You have the power to feel good - or not - just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#10. To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

Jack Layton

#11. When you get up in the morning, set your motivations.

Richard Gere

#12. It is when you stop resisting and choose an attitude of acceptance and positivity that you are able to shift your energetic experience to a higher plane and thereby attract and allow in experiences that are more in alignment with your hopes and dreams.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#13. I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

Chris Lilley

#14. Your happiness - and your healing - are a function of how you choose to respond on the inside to that which is taking place on the outside.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#15. Your hair is like butterflies," Sebastian said, giggling like a child.
"That's nice," Firen said impatiently. "Keep moving."
"Fantastic. I always like my days better with a touch of insanity," Gabriella quipped.

Laura Kreitzer

#16. It's one thing knowing you people cheering you on, yet another to know they have walked in your footsteps.

Christine Magnus Moore

#17. It may seem paradoxical, but you really do experience greater happiness when you choose to stop trying to control everything. And on a spiritual level, you evolve by learning the power of surrender and of love.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#18. Give yourself permission to stop existing and start growing. We all need more than work for self-actualization. Remember that interests and hobbies aren't frivolous; they're necessary for fulfillment and health.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#19. Beauty is sometimes born of pain

Sheri L. Swift

#20. In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#21. Healing is anything that restores your inner sense that all is well, and that returns you to a healthy state of empowerment.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#22. You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Penn Badgley

#23. What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

Bonnie Blair

#24. Now, I'm going to walk you home, and you're going to let me. And tomorrow night I'll make sure you're not walking home alone, and you're going to trust me to take care of that. Understand? She simply nodded, because for the first time in her life, she was speechless.

Lorna Seilstad

#25. Dr. Patel nodded. "You are a very smart man, John. I am curious to know why you never went to college?" John shrugged. "I thought I would. But I fell in love and got married." He started to say more, but his throat caught. Swallowing hard, he continued with difficulty. "Plans change.

Forrest Carr

#26. Each person's journey is different. If something - anything - does not feel right to you, then you alone get to decide whether you will honor it or not. The choice of how to respond to your situation is yours - and will always be yours.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#27. The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution - another reason for filling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!

Susan Barbara Apollon

#28. Not in that sense. What I need is the companionship of another person who can, as it were, complete me - supply what is wanting in me - be one with me in all my striving. MAIA.

Henrik Ibsen

#29. When you choose self-love, you are reclaiming your awareness of your own power, which raises your vibrational energy and contributes to your healing.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#30. Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope.

Auliq Ice

#31. It's one thing knowing you have people cheering you on, yet another to know they've walked in your footsteps.

Christine Magnus Moore

#32. Negative feelings weigh you down and can keep you from experiencing healing, as surely as stones might weigh you down if you were trying to swim.

Susan Barbara Apollon

#33. IN THE SECOND GRADE, WHEN YOU ARE A BOY WHO LIKES A GIRL, YOU GIVE HER YOUR BEST POKEMON CARD. OR YOU PULL HER HAIR. NOT HARD ENOUGH TO MAKE HER CRY, THOUGH.
OR YOU CAN ASK TO HER ROLLERSKATE BACKWARDS WITH YOU, AND THEN HOLD HER HAND SO SHE DOESN'T FALL DOWN.

Meg Cabot

#34. I can't allow the pages of my life to turn with nothing memorable inscribed upon them.

Alex Rutherford

#35. Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

Anita Moorjani

#36. I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

Muriel Rukeyser