Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.   ~Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.   ~Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.   ~Winston Churchill, British prime minister

He who has a “why” to live can bear with almost any “how.”   ~Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher

Sometimes in our lives we reach rock bottom. We experience what we call HELL. For each of us it’s dressed up differently, but for all of us it is dark, tough and devastating. This HELL can be our awakening. Some people call it a breakdown; I believe it is a breakthrough.   ~From “The Pocket Guide To Your Heart"

...success demands discipline and effort. It demands that the patient get moving, become active, develop a constructive fighting attitude. Most people choose the easy way: chemotherapy, radiation or an operation. People say: "What do you mean the easy way? Do you know how horrible chemotherapy is?" Of course chemotherapy is no fun, but a radical change in your diet and lifestyle is more difficult.   ~Eminent holistic cancer cure researcher Lothar Hirneise

Cancer is the easiest of the degenerative conditions to reverse. Much easier than diabetes, for example.   ~Quoting from a well-known alternative cancer treatment advisor’s book

It is a simple thing to be healed of cancer. It is the body that does the work, not my head. I only furnish it with the tools needed to obtain good health. ... My journey was interesting and I still claim that cancer was the best thing that ever happened to me. It woke me up out of my passivity and gave me focus and energy and an awareness of my character. ... Cancer good or bad it is, as all of life, in how you look at it. For me it was very good and taught me much about myself. After all, it matters to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ... I always say it is about the journey not the cancer.   ~Dennis Robinson, PhD, 16 years after his DIY recovery from “terminal” metastasized colon cancer using a natural, holistic, nutritional approach

Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things–whether health or a car or an old sense of self–has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.   ~Lance Armstrong

We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.   ~Margaret Mead

I find it tragic that I must experience almost daily that cancer patients spend more time thinking about how many, and which, tablets they should take instead of dealing with personal changes.   ~Lothar Hirneise on change necessary for cancer patients

Don’t say your world stopped [following a cancer diagnosis], you can make the choice today to turn it around so that your world will only just begin. It is a good experience to learn how to overcome a cancer diagnosis and to be in charge of your body rather than a victim.   ~Allan, “terminal” colon cancer victor

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 – Philosopher

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.   ~Vince Lombardi, football coach

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.   ~Isaac Asimov, author

I didn’t get to where I am by thinking about it or dreaming about it. I got there by doing it.   ~Estee Lauder, entrepreneur

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.   ~Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

To reach (our goal), we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must sail and not drift, not lie at anchor.   ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., physician

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.   ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.  ~Victor Hugo

Health is a large word.  It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well;... and not today's pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.   ~James H. West

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.  ~George Lancaster Spalding

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.  ~Winston Churchill

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.   ~Mignon McLaughlin

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.  ~Scott Hamilton

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.  ~William James

We acquire the strength we have overcome.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience.  Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around.... Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.  ~Larry Dossey

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.  ~Martin H. Fischer

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.  ~Eric Bentley

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.  ~Raymond Lindquist

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.   You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered.   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

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com

Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you.  ~Author Unknown

I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.  ~Wernher von Braun

I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue.  ~Author Unknown

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.  ~Voltaire

Hope is the physician of each misery.  ~Irish Proverb

Hope is grief's best music.  ~Author Unknown

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.  ~Dan Rather

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.  ~Dorothy Bernard

Optimism is the foundation of courage.  ~Nicholas Murray Butler

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.  ~Baruch Spinoza

We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.  ~Author Unknown

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.  ~Thomas Carlyle

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.  ~Hugh Downs

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.  ~John Burroughs

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, The Book of the It, 1923

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.  ~C.C. Scott

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold.  They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.  ~Barbara Bloom

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.  ~George Weinberg

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.  ~Emmanuel

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father. ~Lance Armstrong

Never, never, never give up.  ~Winston Churchill

Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there.  ~Author Unknown

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  ~Eleanor Roosevelt

It's not the years in your life that count.  It's the life in your years.   ~Abraham Lincoln

Once you choose hope, anything's possible.  ~Christopher Reeve

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

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.  ~Plato

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.  ~Author Unknown

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.  ~Victor Hugo

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.  ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.   ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.  ~Voltaire

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.   ~Winston Churchill

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.  ~Alex Karras

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all.  ~Emily Dickinson

Become a possibilitarian.  No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.   ~Norman Vincent Peale

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.   ~Author Unknown

Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads.  ~Henry David Thoreau

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear.  That's how he finds that he can bear anything.  ~William Faulkner

Women agonize... over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast.  ~Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.  ~Author Unknown

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.  ~Anne Frank

If you're going through hell, keep going.  ~Winston Churchill

Adversity is like a strong wind.  It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.  ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.  ~James K. Feibleman

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.  ~Kenji Miyazawa

There is much in the world to make us afraid.  There is much more in our faith to make us unafraid.  ~Frederick W. Cropp

Each day comes bearing its own gifts.  Untie the ribbons.  ~Ruth Ann Schabacker

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.  ~Mark Twain

It isn't our position but our disposition which makes us happy.  ~Author Unknown

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.  ~Maori Proverb

Mind is everything.  Muscle - pieces of rubber.  All that I am, I am because of my mind.  ~Paavo Nurmi

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.  ~William Arthur Ward

Every tomorrow has two handles.  We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.  ~Author Unknown

Confidence and hope do more good than physic.  ~Galen

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!  ~Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood:  our body.   ~Marcel Proust

In time of test, family is best.  ~Burmese Proverb

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us.  That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.  ~Emily Kimbrough

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind supports the body too. ~John Armstrong

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.  ~Ambrose Redmoon

He who fears something gives it power over him.  ~Moorish Proverb

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.  ~Arthur Koestler

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.  Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.  ~Jane Howard

When you treat a disease, first treat the mind.  ~Chen Jen

Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.  If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.  ~Arthur Somers Roche

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.  ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

To fear is one thing.  To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.  ~Katherine Paterson