MONDAY MOTIVATION - Look Fear in the Face

So true...

MONDAY MOTIVATION - Thankfulness and Gratitude

This last week, I was making some homemade Thank You cards. I searched the internet for some quotes on Gratitude and Thankfulness. I came across some of the most wonderful quotes. I thought today, I'd share a few with you. As you read these, think of those who have helped you through your cancer journey - family, friends, doctors, nurses, etc.

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pine

"How far that little candle throws his beam! So shines a good deed in a weary world." -Shakespeare

"The measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others." -Steve Nash

"Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls." -David Thomas

"How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world." -Anne Frank

And finally... the one that I chose to put on my cards:

"Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

**Just a little reminder to be full of gratitude for those who have helped you along the way - take a moment and let them know how you feel.

Have a great day, everyone!

-Kara

MONDAY MOTIVATION - Quotes

Thought I'd share some survivors quotes today...

"I explained to a friend what a TRAM flap procedure was; cutting a portion of my abdominal tissue and muscle and using it to reconstruct a new breast. Her reply? “So, when you get hungry, does your breast growl?” Haha!

"Paper gowns should be outlawed!"

"There is more to us than what is written on a chart or read in a test result."

"When I lost my hair, my lashes, and my eyebrows, it felt like I was being erased."

"Some days you fight totally for others' sake."

"Try to take on one worry at a time, and not obsess about the magnitude of your entire treatment. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow is yet to be. Today is more than enough for most of us to handle."

"I learned very early to look at what surgery, chemo and radiation was going to do FOR me instead of TO me. That made all the difference."

"Hope costs nothing to give, and is priceless to have."

"I have often thought of cancer as a schoolyard bully... he’s a bully with such a bad reputation that he no longer has to fight: just the mere thought of him could send people running. But all it takes is for a couple of people to stand up to the bully to diminish his reputation. That’s what a cancer success story does-it stares down the cancer bully. It shows that he can be beaten-and, believe me, he can!"

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle; I just wish He didn't trust me so much." --Mother Teresa

"With hope there is significant power."

These quotes came from THIS website. Have a great day!

THURSDAY THOUGHTS - The Power of Positive Thinking

I'd like to share some quotes by Norman Vincent Peale with you today. I think each of these quote can and does relate to our cancer journeys. It is my hope that you'll read something here today that will help you in some small way...

(Norman Vincent Peale was a prominant minister in New York, a radio personality, and much more. He is perhaps best know as the author of "The Power of Positive Thinking".)

"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. "

As we move forward as survivors, and we start to help others, we will build the self-confidence that might have been damaged as a result of our cancer diagnosis.

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Having happy thoughts really does help!

"Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously."

Don't think that you can't stop and take care of yourself. Things will still go on working without you for awhile. Focus just on you and getting better.

"Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination."

You CAN make it through your cancer journey. Just take it one day at a time.


"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship."

Sometimes, after surgeries and treatments change our appearance, it's hard to get used to the "new" you - but if you'll try to get to know that new person, you'll find the old you hiding in there somewhere!

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."

I've heard this saying - Cancer is a word, not a sentence. And I think that the fact that you have cancer doesn't have have to be a bad thing. If you can think of cancer not as a terrible thing you have to go through, but as a chance to be molded into a different, even better person, you'll see your cancer journey through different eyes. Attitude really is everything.

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

It's going to be ok. You'll make it through this. You'll come out better than before. You ARE amazing!

Go out and make it a great day!

-Kara