"As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been. ~ Shelley Hamlin
So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it’s meant to improve us. ~ Lance Armstrong
I have that never say die attitude. And that's the kind of way you have to approach it. You can't lay down and take it, you know? You live on your terms, not on the cancer's terms. ~ Jeffrey Newbauer Jr.
You hear “cancer” and you go, “he’s dead.” It’s not necessarily true. I mean, really not as much anymore. ~ Robert Schimmel, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 5/30/08
This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you’ve got. And you’re not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it. ~ Elizabeth Edwards
Believe in who you are, believe in what you feel, your power will come from that. ~ Melissa Etheridge, Words for the Cure
Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone. ~ Sheryl Crow
Children who live with cancer adjust. They don’t think bald is weird. ~ Judy Masterson
Today is the first day of my second life. ~ Seiji Ozawa