People With Cancer Quotes:

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

- Ike Skelton

topic: Cancer, Numbers, Years, Cancer Death, Detection

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

- Ricky Gervais

source: FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jul 06, 2014

topic: Hate, Cancer, People, I Hate People, People With Cancer

There are a very small number of doctors in France that use essential oils and herbs as well as conventional drugs in their treatments and sometimes they will use essential oils intensively, usually because they are treating people with cancer or chronic infections that patients have had for years, and ingested essential oils are a really a great choice for treating chronic infections if you're a doctor.

- Robert Tisserand

source: Source: roberttisserand.com

topic: Cancer, Doctors, Small Numbers, People With Cancer, Essential Oils

People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

- Nancy Reagan

topic: Inspirational, Cancer, People, Mammograms, People With Cancer

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 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.

- Gilda Radner

topic: Cancer, People, Important, People With Cancer

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

- John Cheever

topic: Cancer, Mean, Cat, Breast Cancer, Cleaners

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

- Georg Groddeck

topic: Cancer, Sleep, Recovery, Inspirational Cancer, Breast Cancer

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

topic: Children, Giving Up, Cancer, Inspirational Cancer, Breast Cancer

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

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cancer, Grateful, Healthy, Inspirational Cancer, Prioritize

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

- Ingrid Bergman

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Cancer, Inspirational Cancer, Inspirational Girl

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

- Emily Dickinson

source: " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Soul, Hope And Faith, Extremity

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

- Christopher Reeve

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Hope, Hope And Faith, Inspirational Cancer

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

topic: Inspirational, Distance, Cancer, Inspirational Cancer, Breast Cancer

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

- Ingrid Bergman

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Cancer, Fate, Survival, Breast Cancer, Cancer Victim

But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.36, Penguin

topic: Cancer, People, Foundation, People With Cancer

One of my patients told me that when she tried to tell her story people often interrupted her to tell her that they once had something just like that happen to them. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves. Eventually she stopped talking to most people. It was just too lonely. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the focus of attention to ourselves. When we listen, they know we care. Many people with cancer talk about the relief of having someone just listen.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Lonely, Pain, Cancer, Story People, People With Cancer

One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or these sad-eyed tragic people. And the truth is, people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. They're every bit as funny and complex and diverse as anyone else.

- John Green

topic: Wise, Cancer, Writing, People With Cancer

For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have learned how to enjoy the minute particulars of life once again, the grace of a hot cup of coffee, the presence of a friend, the blessing of having a new cake of soap or an hour without pain. Such humble experience is the stuff that many of the very best stories are made of. If we think we have no stories it is because we have not paid enough attention to our lives. Most of us live lives that are far richer and more meaningful than we appreciate.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Meaningful, Pain, Cancer, Counselor, People With Cancer

Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.

- Rachel Naomi Remen

topic: Cancer, Years, People, Burn Out, People With Cancer

Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.

- Michael J. Fox

topic: Cancer, Talking, Paris, People With Cancer, Talking To Him