Farrah Fawcett Quotes

Anybody who has cancer, they take it one day at a time.

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

It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

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

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.

I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

When people go get chemo, they're not injecting themselves with will - I have lost various loved ones to cancer, and I certainly don't feel that I am any stronger or braver than them.

I want the other Victorias out there, the people that are suffering or going through something, to keep fighting.

Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.

My mother is a two-time cancer survivor.

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

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.

Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.

As a war correspondent and a mother, I've learned to live in two different realities... but it's my choice. I choose to live in peace and witness war - to experience the worst in people but to remember the beauty.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.