William fighting cancer: December 2011

Words to Remember

"Unity is strength, knowledge is power, attitude is everything." LiveStrong motto

"When I get up I take a giant suck it up pill, and wash it down with a can of hard." David Goggins, US Navy SEAL

"Pain is temporary, quitting is forever." Lance Armstrong

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival." Winston Churchill

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better." Jim Rohn

"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin

"Either you deal with what is the reality or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you." Alex Hailey

"Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out." Titus Livius

"There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going." Beverly Sills

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." Dr. Seuss

"We are judged by what we finish, not by what we start."

"Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction." John F. Kennedy

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." Sidney J. Harris

"You are better than you think you are. You can do more than you think you can."

"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise." Robert Fritz

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." GK Chesterson

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." Vincent Van Gogh

"Fortune favours the brave." Publius Terence

"Deal with the world the way it is, not the way you wish it was." John Chambers

"Things do not change, we change." Henry David Thoreau

"In the midst of winter, I found within me an invincible summer." Albert Camus

"Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances."

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields." Leo Tolstoy

"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." Pythagoras

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill

"You can have results or excuses. Not both."

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." Fight Club

“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.” Tennessee Williams

"Never confuse movement with action." W. Churchill

"Nothing will come of nothing. Dare mighty things." Shakespeare

"Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is." J W v Goethe

"It is not what happens to you, it's what what you do about it that makes the difference." Wilson Mitchell

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." Winston Churchill

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other as through everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” Friedrich Nietzsche

William fighting cancer

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Not Dead Yet - posted above with correct date