Illness And Hope Quotes

“I love to walk. Walking is a spiritual journey and a reflection of living. Each of us must determine which path to take and how far to walk; we must find our own way, what is right for one may not be for another. There is no single right way to deal with late stage cancer, to live life or approach death, or to walk an old mission trail.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“Gratitude pours forth continually, as if the unexpected had just happened—the gratitude of a convalescent—for convalescence was unexpected…. The rejoicing of strength that is returning, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of seas that are open again.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“We all die. Not all of us live.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“I thank God every day for this life, and I want there to be more, though that’s not known. What is known is that I’m alive today, this minute. And that’s pretty much what we all have – this day, this moment.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“God did not come to do away with suffering; he did not even come to explain it. He came to fill it with his presence.”
― Paul Claudel

“I came to realize we are held in the arms of God and are utterly completely safe - in life and in death; whether walking alone or with others.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“I started to walk the day I was told I was dying of cancer. I believe walking has kept me alive. I live with a constant, pressing awareness of death. Once I start to walk, I am not afraid anymore; all is well.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“A long walk is a slow remembering of how profound and wonderful life is; God is everywhere and in everything. Wherever I look I am looking at God.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“This story is not about avoiding death, but living life.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“Acceptance of death and cancer did not mean I intended to give up, just the opposite. I was prepared to fight cancer not out of fear of dying, but out of joy of living.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“every disease is curable, except when Life energy is depleted.”
― Julia H Sun

“The most irrational things can make a power of difference to a very ill woman.”
― Lucilla Andrews, My Friend the Professor: A heartwarming 1960s hospital romance

“It is only in the presence of God that we find the relief that comes from being ourselves - exposing all of our brokenness - and knowing that He is not disappointed. His love doesn't waver. We are His. He has adopted us. He wants us, even when we have nothing to give.”
― Holly Dickson-Ramos, Strong Spirit: Hope for Women Living with Illness

“Colin had just accomplished the impossible. He had broken down the walls around my heart. The walls I had been building far before my illnesses but had grown even sturdier since my diagnosis. And for the first time, it felt like I'd been set free.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“I walk to rid myself of the terror of cancer, and to overcome the fear of it coming back. The fear may never completely fade, but actively engaging life – whatever that may involve – reminds me of the joy each day can bring.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“Through the Grace of God and His medicine I am healed.” The prayer was accompanied by a vision straight out of Braveheart, a line of Scottish Highland warriors in kilts with huge shields and long spears marching in brave unison and attacking and killing the cancer. They were advancing, towards the cancer, striking and killing it with strong accurate thrusts from their sharp spears. The vision was so strong I could hear marching feet, and visibly see the cancer in me dying. “Through the Grace of God and His medicine I am healed,” became my constant prayer. The prayer awakened with me each day, coming on the wings of the morning. It followed in my heart through the day, and was on my lips as I drifted to sleep at night.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“When I put down Lance Armstrong’s book, I understood something profoundly. Edie, if you can move, you’re not sick. I decided right then and there that no matter what cancer did to me I would continue to move. Movement was what the physical body was designed to do; it was how it coped and functioned. Movement was vitality. It was life.
I would move. Always. No matter what. Until my last breath, I would move.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby, The Mission Walker: I was given three months to live...

“Because Truth and life are one, when you reject the Truth, you cut yourself off from the source of life.”
― Dragos Bratasanu, The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny

“Whatever made this world and everything in it isn’t wrong, it’s miraculous. Typos are wrong. That’s about it.”
― Anne Clendening, Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

“We're no different, you and I. I just wear my demons on the outside.”
― Kayla Krantz , When Night Falls: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems

“How do we make sense out of life when ‘lost’ is actually a critical part of the path to our destination? Get Will to be released 2021.”
― Tonya L. Matthews

“Für mich ist der Krebs etwas sehr Lebendiges, (...)”
― Albert Espinosa

“For many of us, life is complicated. Challenging. We battle illness, longing for many things: to be loved, to live meaningful lives, to enjoy just one day without symptoms, without triggering a condition, to feel capable of nurturing our loved ones the way we want to, to be defined not by a condition or a diagnosis, but by our inner selves - the person God sees when He looks at us.”
― Holly Dickson-Ramos, Strong Spirit: Hope for Women Living with Illness

“Some crew members deserve to walk the plank. Prevent mutiny, rid scoundrels from your life.”
― Carole D. Fontaine, SAIL Above the Clouds - How to SIMPLIFY Your Life: A Sailor's Lessons for Uncovering Inner Strength, Conquering Chronic Disease, and Finding Meaningful Purpose

“He had to know, on some level, that this trip was either a celebration of improvement in health, or a last hurrah. And he still had yet to find out which one it was.”
― Brooke Gilbert

“That’s not baggage. It’s not acceptable to call your illnesses baggage.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“I had fought for this moment. I had fought for my life, what health I had, the ability to live my life, and the ability to love. And he was worth every moment I had fought so hard for. I never could have imagined what I was truly fighting so desperately for. But there he sat.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“The mean-spirited, unpredictable cancer beast had changed all of our lives. There were unspoken details of our life before cancer. Now, only the stark reality of life after cancer remained. I was acutely aware that, regardless of the treatment’s outcome, we were bound in a race against time. A relentless clock, damnably ticking away, measured the fleeting seconds of Xuan’s life. Its insistent rhythm served as a re- minder of our finite journey. Though it may have momentarily paused, the clock would invariably resume its steady wind down toward zero.”
― Kayla Cunningham, Fated to Love You