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Just as It sucks to sometimes get up in the morning and your bones decide to do their own thing, so also is it really frustrating to not be able to do the things you want to do; to take cold things because the weather calls for it, to play football because you have passion for it, or to be spontaneous.
Whether you are living with sickle cell or you know someone who has sickle cell, you already know that it requires a lot of strength and motivation. We all know how crazy it is to constantly be on medication ranging from folic acid (the smell alone is enough to knock you out), ibuprofen, and many others. The excruciating pain that gets you tied down in the hospital bed for days, weeks, and even months. You need some sort of motivation and inspiration to keep moving.
This is why I have put together some sickle cell quotes to inspire you to live life not just as a sickle cell patient but as someone who has a lot to achieve. These sickle cell quotes are by warriors like you, like me, like all of us, who have deemed it fit to inspire us with their great words.
You might think you don’t need these sickle cell awareness quotes because you are not a sickle cell patient or no one in your family is, but the truth is that whether or not you are a sickle cell patient, as long as a friend, a classmate or a colleague is one, then you need these quotes to help the person through the journey of life.
As we are in the month of sickle cell awareness, it is important to have inspiring quotes for all the sickle cell patients, for all the warriors/fighters. Sharing these quotes is one of the things to do in sickle cell awareness month.
1. Being a survivor doesn’t mean being strong-its telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It’s paying attention to heart, wisdom, feelings, not living a role but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
Bernie Siegel
2. You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
Elizabeth Edwards
3. Life isn’t perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
Patsy Kensit
4. What makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in on situations that would otherwise overcome you.
Amy Tan
5. And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he passed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me. It failed.
Leigh Bardugo
6. One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
7. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition-such as lifting weights-we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
Stephen Covey
8. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James
9. When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship.
Bruce Feiler
10. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
11. If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.
Vera Nazarian
12. The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable.
Thomas S. Monson
13. I don’t intend to let (sickle cell) keep me from doing the things I love to do, that make me who I am. You can call that stubborn but I just call it living.
Tionne T-Boz Watkins
14. Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are. We stand strong, or we cower. We emerge victorious, tempered by our trials, or fractured by a permanent damning fault line.
Karen Marie Moning
15. The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Molière
16. Those who don’t know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.
Deng Ming-Dao
17. I am more than my scars.
Andrew Davidson
18. As a warrior, you can be whatever and whomever you want to be. Don’t limit yourself.
Joan Jonah
19. If you expect life to be easy, challenges will seem difficult. If you accept that challenges may occur, life will be easier.
Rob Liano
20. There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Hyrum Smith
21. Thriving. That’s fighting… Surviving is barely getting by.
Jillian Michaels
22. Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times.
Lailah Gifty Akita
23. If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Dr Martin Luther King Jr
24. Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to.
Amy B. Scher
25. Most people live in fear of some terrible event changing their lives, the death of a loved one or a serious illness. For the chronically ill, this terrible event has already happened, and we have been let in on an amazing secret: You survive. You adapt, and your life changes, but in the end you go on, with whatever compromises you have been forced to make, whatever losses you have been forced to endure. You learn to balance your fears with the simple truth that you must go on living.
Jamie Weisman
26. You are not weak because of your illness. You did not fail treatment, the treatment failed you. Your illness is not your fault, you did not cause this. You are not a failure, you are a warrior.
Lupie Linda
27. As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation-either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
Martin Luther King Jr
28. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.
Khalil Gibran
29. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known toss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people don’t just happen.
Elizabeth Kubler Ros
30. I am strong and determined. I am brilliant and beautiful. I am an educator and an advocate. I am not defined by a diagnosis, nor will I submit to a stereotype. I insist upon compassionate care, adequate pain, control and respectful communication. When a crisis brings me to my knees, I will nurse my wounds, dust my knees off, and keep on fighting. When a warrior is lost, I will grieve that loss and fight that much harder. I am beautifully and wonderfully made. I am a sickle cell warrior. Take a moment, enjoy the awesome.
Kiea
Finally, to add to the above sickle cell quotes, I would like to share with you this beautiful poem written by Nana Kofi Acheamfour and Kerry Lewis, dedicated to all sickle cell warriors.
I AM A WARRIOR.
The road to success may be rough,
But I will never fall.
For every situation, I WILL stand tall.
Crisis and disappointment will not discourage me,
at all.
I AM A WARRIOR.
I may stumble along the way,
But in myself, I shall always believe,
I will not let the pain and fatigue
Stand in the way of all that I can achieve
I AM A WARRIOR.
The battle chose me,
But it is not Mine.
With my Savior and family beside me
I will continuously shine.
Today, I may be down and in pain,
But know that tomorrow I shall rise again.
I may sometimes have weaker feet,
but I will never ever retreat.
With courage and determination,
I will reach my destination
Because…… I AM A WARRIOR!
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