cancer

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
8848564	Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.	failure inspiration inspirational pain quitting cancer	Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins
76566ea	the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world	cancer hazel-grace indianapolis tfios the-fault-in-our-stars	John Green
635dba8	Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...	augustus-waters author book cancer fangirl fault green hazel-grace-lancaster inspirational inspire john john-green kiss love lovely-quote okay romance romantic stars tfios the-fault-in-our-stars thefaultinourstars always	John Green
920a2fa	It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...	cancer pain sad sorrow sorrowful	John Green
192b546	The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.	augustus-waters beautiful cancer cowpox death death-and-dying grace hazel hazel-grace romantic smallpox the-fault-in-our-stars waters	John Green
dd3b490	The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care	atheism belief bravery cancer death doctors honor inevitable inspirational knowledge medicine morality mortality science	Lance Armstrong
7398a96	Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.	cancer humor life smoking	J.R. Ward
1a8ca9d	Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.	cancer death family jesse jodi-picoult kate leukemia my-sister-s-keeper sadness	Jodi Picoult
f5876cd	If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.	cancer cancer-kids children-with-cancer illness	John Green
289a1f6	"Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a "gift," was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before--one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate."	cancer	Barbara Ehrenreich
3e116e3	Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns malignant like the Narcotic Bureau, and grows and grows, always reproducing more of its own kind, until it chokes the host if not controlled or excised. Bureaus cannot live without a host, being true parasitic organisms. (A cooperative on the other hand can live without the state. That is the road to follow. The building up of independent units to meet needs of the people who participate in the functioning of the unit. A bureau operates on opposite principles of inventing needs to justify its existence.) Bureaucracy is wrong as a cancer, a turning away from the human evolutionary direction of infinite potentials and differentiation and independent spontaneous action to the complete parasitism of a virus. (It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from more complex life-form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another -- the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter.) Bureaus die when the structure of the state collapse. They are as helpless and unfit for independent existence as a displaced tapeworm, or a virus that has killed the host.	bureaucracy bureaucratization bureaucrats cancer	William S. Burroughs
99c5c19	"I've seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly... they can't kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I've seen humans die from smoking them... if I were you I would stop smoking them." "Why should I? You smoke 'em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes," Mandy pointed out. "Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties... for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes... but I'm not a person, I'm Pollution, things like that aren't dangerous to me but they are to you," Alecto told her. "It's not a good idea."	attack blast-from-the-past cancer chain-smoke cigar cigarette creepy deadly depress depression disturbing education eerie gray grief haunting health horror knowledge loss no-smoking past pollution retro scary self-help sick smog smoke spooky times tobacco trapped vhs-tape video	Rebecca McNutt
d5f2091	And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.	cancer life-saver punk-rock saved-my-life	Chuck Klosterman
aaa25e2	HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS	cancer death father	Nicole Krauss
27771b7	Hormonal changes permanently alter the breast's structure. And when a pregnancy is terminated through abortion, the process is interrupted, which leaves cells in a sate of transition. And they say cells in this state have a very high risk of becoming cancerous. So the woman's chances of developing breast cancer later in life my be greatly increased.	cancer	Francine Rivers
8664b2d	"[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" --	cancer inspiration insurance intro introduction medical-insurance	Amy Tan
4046163	"As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self."	cancer clinical-oncology immune-system medicine oncology positive-thinking psychology	Barbara Ehrenreich
197ca7d	"Like Mom, Zoe thought-like Mom used to. And that's where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It's not even good poetry, she thought. I don't have talent, it's her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. "You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery."	cancer dying-mother emotion greif lonliness loss mother pain sadness	Annette Curtis Klause
6feeee9	The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...	cancer fight mankind maul murder spirit	Garth Ennis
c31199e	Iata ce-am invatat despre cancer: iti arata ce inseamna o boala incurabila si apoi te azvarle inapoi in lume, in propria ta viata, cu toata placerea si dulceata ei, pe care le simti acum mai mult ca niciodata. Si stii ca ti s-a dat ceva si ti s-a luat ceva.	cancer invata-sa-traiesti	Irvin D. Yalom

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

failure inspiration inspirational pain quitting cancer

Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins

76566ea

the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world

cancer hazel-grace indianapolis tfios the-fault-in-our-stars

John Green

635dba8

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

augustus-waters author book cancer fangirl fault green hazel-grace-lancaster inspirational inspire john john-green kiss love lovely-quote okay romance romantic stars tfios the-fault-in-our-stars thefaultinourstars always

John Green

920a2fa

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

cancer pain sad sorrow sorrowful

John Green

192b546

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

augustus-waters beautiful cancer cowpox death death-and-dying grace hazel hazel-grace romantic smallpox the-fault-in-our-stars waters

John Green

dd3b490

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care

atheism belief bravery cancer death doctors honor inevitable inspirational knowledge medicine morality mortality science

Lance Armstrong

7398a96

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

cancer humor life smoking

J.R. Ward

1a8ca9d

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

cancer death family jesse jodi-picoult kate leukemia my-sister-s-keeper sadness

Jodi Picoult

f5876cd

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

cancer cancer-kids children-with-cancer illness

John Green

289a1f6

"Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a "gift," was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before--one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate."

cancer

Barbara Ehrenreich

3e116e3

Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns malignant like the Narcotic Bureau, and grows and grows, always reproducing more of its own kind, until it chokes the host if not controlled or excised. Bureaus cannot live without a host, being true parasitic organisms. (A cooperative on the other hand can live without the state. That is the road to follow. The building up of independent units to meet needs of the people who participate in the functioning of the unit. A bureau operates on opposite principles of inventing needs to justify its existence.) Bureaucracy is wrong as a cancer, a turning away from the human evolutionary direction of infinite potentials and differentiation and independent spontaneous action to the complete parasitism of a virus. (It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from more complex life-form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another -- the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter.) Bureaus die when the structure of the state collapse. They are as helpless and unfit for independent existence as a displaced tapeworm, or a virus that has killed the host.

bureaucracy bureaucratization bureaucrats cancer

William S. Burroughs

99c5c19

"I've seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly... they can't kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I've seen humans die from smoking them... if I were you I would stop smoking them." "Why should I? You smoke 'em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes," Mandy pointed out. "Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties... for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes... but I'm not a person, I'm Pollution, things like that aren't dangerous to me but they are to you," Alecto told her. "It's not a good idea."

attack blast-from-the-past cancer chain-smoke cigar cigarette creepy deadly depress depression disturbing education eerie gray grief haunting health horror knowledge loss no-smoking past pollution retro scary self-help sick smog smoke spooky times tobacco trapped vhs-tape video

Rebecca McNutt

d5f2091

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

cancer life-saver punk-rock saved-my-life

Chuck Klosterman

aaa25e2

HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS

cancer death father

Nicole Krauss

27771b7

Hormonal changes permanently alter the breast's structure. And when a pregnancy is terminated through abortion, the process is interrupted, which leaves cells in a sate of transition. And they say cells in this state have a very high risk of becoming cancerous. So the woman's chances of developing breast cancer later in life my be greatly increased.

cancer

Francine Rivers

8664b2d

"[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long known she had but for which she had been unable to get adequate treatment because she lacked medical insurance. ("If you mention anything about me," she said, "tell people that.")" --

cancer inspiration insurance intro introduction medical-insurance

Amy Tan

4046163

"As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is that the immune system is designed to detect foreign invaders, and avoid out own cells. With few exceptions, the immune system does not appear to recognize cancers within an individual as foreign, because they are actually part of the self."

cancer clinical-oncology immune-system medicine oncology positive-thinking psychology

Barbara Ehrenreich

197ca7d

"Like Mom, Zoe thought-like Mom used to. And that's where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions. It's not even good poetry, she thought. I don't have talent, it's her. I should be the one ill; she has so much to offer, so much life. "You're a dark one," her mother said sometimes with amused wonder. "You're a mystery."

cancer dying-mother emotion greif lonliness loss mother pain sadness

Annette Curtis Klause

6feeee9

The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...

cancer fight mankind maul murder spirit

Garth Ennis

c31199e

Iata ce-am invatat despre cancer: iti arata ce inseamna o boala incurabila si apoi te azvarle inapoi in lume, in propria ta viata, cu toata placerea si dulceata ei, pe care le simti acum mai mult ca niciodata. Si stii ca ti s-a dat ceva si ti s-a luat ceva.

cancer invata-sa-traiesti

Irvin D. Yalom