Everybody keeps talking about 'fighting' the cancer, " he said, "everybody keeps telling me to fight for my life, to fight the disease, and how their uncle won the battle against cancer and their cousin won the fight against cancer and black blah blah blah."" Okay..and?"" I'm not fighting, " he said. "It's already inside me.. and I'm not going to fight. I'm going to be a good host, let it pass through me. resist nothing. Sieve. Let it all pass through. . Amanda Palmer
Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.
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John Green
There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent...
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John Green
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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Lance Armstrong
I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)
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John Green
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
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William Saroyan
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Asking for help with shame
When we ask for anything, we're almost always asking for help, in some form; help with money, permission, acceptance, advancement, help with our hearts.. Brene Brown has found through her research that women tend to feel shame around the idea of being 'never enough'.. at...
And another local journalist wrote an op-ed wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far. Wondering if this trend of empathy had gone too far? To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of understanding.
The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end
You can’t ask authentically and gracefully without truly being able to accept “No” for an answer. Because if you’re not truly willing to accept “No” for an answer, you’re not really asking, you’re demandingâ€Å–â€Åyou’re begging. At least, that’s how I’ve come to understand asking.
