Cancer Hope Quotes

How much you live isn't all about the years, but about the people you touch, the difference you make, and the joy you bring to others. ~ Sadie Keller

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

He was a dreamer in such wise, because he was a man who had, deep-rooted in his nature, a belief in all the gentle and good things his life had been without. Bred in meanness and hard dealing, this had rescued him to be a man of honourable mind and open hand. Bred in coldness and severity, this had rescued him to have a warm and sympathetic heart. Bred in a creed too darkly audacious to pursue, through its process of reserving the making of man in the image of his Creator to the making of his Creator in the image of an erring man, this had rescued him to judge not, and in humility to be merciful, and have hope and charity. ~ Charles Dickens

But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism. ~ Cornel West

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must. ~ Mary Kay Ash

In India, there are thousands of girls who kill their true loves just because of their family respect. But we still don't value their feelings, dreams, and emotions. ~ Brajendra Pandey

Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it that the sensation was like something living inside me, something wonderful waiting to break free, just like I was. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven't let her take away my will to somehow survive. ~ Dave Pelzer

I sure do wish you the best of luck, Miss Connolly. and I hope you won't wait for Sean Kendrick to realize that he's lonely." I want to ask him, Wait for what? but Finn's come up then and it's not a question I want to ask in front of one of my brothers. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Man's only hope lies in "final redemption from the misery of volition and existence into the painlessness of non-being and non-willing." No mortal may quit the task of life, but each must do his part to hasten the time when in the major portion of the human race the activity of the unconscious shall be ruled by intelligence, and this stage reached, in the simultaneous action of many persons volition will resolve upon its own non-continuance, and thus idea and will be once more reunited in the Absolute. ~ Karl Robert Eduard Von Hartmann

What is false about hope? ~ Mitch Albom

Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on. ~ Holly Hood

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense. ~ Hope Mirrlees

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters. ~ Ambrose Bierce

life is a rope that swings us through hope always believe that today is better than yesterday and tomrrow wil be much better than today... ~ Shermin Samuel

I smile and I look down at Olivia where she's curled up against me, her beautiful face relaxed in sleep.
I don't want to put names to the things I feel for her. I just want her to know I'm not going anywhere. And that I want to take care of her. To make her happy. I hope that's enough. It has to be. ~ M. Leighton

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail. ~ Romeo LeBlanc

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000. ~ William J. Clinton

For those who praise God and say "God is good," or, 'I'm so blessed," when you get what YOU want, try praising Him and saying, "God is good," and "I'm so blessed," when you're suffering. To do the first is effortless. The masses do it, that's how easy it is. To do the latter requires something greater: strength, faith and gratitude - no matter the ouch involved. ~ Donna Lynn Hope

I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going. ~ Melina Marchetta

Seeked of self love. ~ Nikki Rowe

I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it. ~ El-P

I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope. ~ Elayne Boosler

So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

Your breaking point will be a bloody refuge, not a clean slate. ~ Christina Hopp

Signs are my food, drink are my tears; Clinking of fetters such music would crave; Stink and close air, away my life wears Innocency is all the hope I have. - Sir Thomas Wyatt ~ David Johnson

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right ... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential. ~ Kofi Annan

Most of us don't fear that we are not enough; what most of us really fear is our own greatness. Most of us have a fear of success. Why? Because we don't think that we deserve to be successful in anything. This is why people recklessly spend their money or don't work as hard as they could or do things that they know are wrong. They are hindering their own success on purpose, because they don't think they deserve it. They cut their own legs out from underneath them on purpose. They are self-sabotaging. ~ Lisa Bedrick

Pressing the gun against his forehead, I locked eyes with his chaotic gaze. He begged me silently. He pleaded wordlessly. And no compassion filled me.

I hope you burn forever. ~ Pepper Winters

Book I wrote this book because I believe there is still hope to prevent the catastrophic events planned by the global elite ruling class. In a desperate attempt to protect their monopoly on the global financial system, they are willing to start World War III. It is their intention to use ISIS to ignite a massive conflict in the Middle East, a conflict designed to draw Russia and China in so they can start a global war. ~ James Garcia

I hope this is a lesson to you. Never take eggs from a metal-eyed man. ~ Joe Abercrombie

Stephen can, of course, use my power, for two reasons. Firstly, because it's his, just as all I am and all I have are his. Not that he ever asks, of course. I'm not sure that he quite believes it." He looked round at Stephen, a rueful smile dawning, ignoring Fairley's loud noises of disgust. "But I do hope you are aware, my sweet, somewhere in that absurd heart, that I am ever, entirely, and quite pathetically yours. ~ K.J. Charles

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. ~ Carl Jung

How do you balance the two halves of your self - the priest and the soldier?" The light and the darkness. It was not a question he should've asked, not a possibility he should've considered, but it was done and now he waited. Because he needed the answer.

"The same way you balance your todays and tomorrows. With hope and forgiveness. ~ Nalini Singh

Hate is just as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Many of our inner conflicts are rooted in hate. This is why the psychiatrists say, "Love or perish." Hate is too great a burden to bear. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope is the daughter of patience. The longer you wait will define you at the end of the journey. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation. ~ Debasish Mridha

...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely odds, we still worry about being raped or murdered. We hear a sound in the night and think of burglars, not mice... It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door. ~ Ruth Dugdall

If any of this ended in an explosion, I hoped it would be one that made us burn brighter, stronger than ever before. ~ Sheba Karim

The problem with preparing for the worst is that that has the power to attract the worst. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. ~ Hope Davis

Give away everything to have it forever. ~ Debasish Mridha

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family. ~ Townsend Harris

When questions of 'class' interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination. ~ James Connolly

Bushwhacking through unchartered territory is how you discover who you are and what you're here for. Getting lost is how you find your way. There is no other way. ~ Amy McTear

Men mess up. Women create this big illusion in their head that the man they're going to be with is going to be perfect. Nobody's going to be perfect, and people are going to let you down. The only thing that you can hope for is someone that's going to be honest with you. ~ Jessica White

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying. ~ Bill Gates

I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind. ~ Eugene Delacroix