Hoda Kotb Quotes

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

Cancer is a cosmic slap in the face. You either get discouraged or ennobled by it.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.

I really wish this wasn't a thing. But this tumor is a thing. Even though it's not what I would have chosen for myself, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be all bad. What I keep trying to remind myself is this is one of those things that looks like a really bad thing on the outside but I know too little about life to be sure.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.

The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

I think having the cancer allowed me to be able to freely talk about my faith.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.