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.
Elizabeth Edwards
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
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.
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.
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.
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.
I'm a puzzle doer.
I'm not just a cuckolded wife.
We're all going to die.
I grew up in a Navy family.
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.
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 think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
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.
I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
I want to live.
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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.
I come out of real life.
Tabloid news is tabloid news.
I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
The military is already sexually integrated.
Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.
I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
