But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
I want to reclaim who I am.
I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.
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