#cancer

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

#catholic #faith #inspiration #miracles #faith

I have cancer. Cancer doesn't have me. ↗

— Marco Calderon

#faith #fight #god #hope #insperational

When one person gets cancer, the whole family gets cancer. ↗

— Shirley Corder

#inspirational #family

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars) ↗

— Kristina Riggle

#fiction #life #mothers #parenting #poignant

Su voz suena preciosa por teléfono...preciosa. Por un momento, siento auténtico pánico. No sé qué decirle. Me gustaría decirle: «Oiga, Irene, creo que es usted hermosa...Creo que es usted maravillosa.» Me gustaría decirle algo que fuera cierto, por ridículo que fuese, porque, ahora que he oído su voz, todo ha cambiado. ↗

— Henry Miller

#tropic-of-cancer #voice #love

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#cancer #daughter #doctor #friend #mother

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#bitterness #burns #cancer #clean #eats

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cancer #come #live #long #many

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas. ↗

— Anjelica Huston

#although #areas #beaches #born #cancer

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

#cancer #defeat #discouraged #gone #had