The Cancer Misfit Quotes

“We underestimate the power of choice, our power to suddenly wake up one day bored of our own bullshit and decide to do things differently.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Let me tell you right now that the ego is the most cunning and devious creature you will ever have to deal with. There is no man, woman, child, animal, rock, mineral, tree or sea monster you will ever meet that is as dark, pessimistic or challenging.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“You don’t need to fit into any square, round or triangular holes anymore. You don’t need to fit into a pretty package or be the same as everybody else. You just need to accept and love yourself exactly as you are.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Self-love is about slipping up, having the bad days and loving ourselves despite of them, forgiving ourselves and, most importantly, having compassion for ourselves and how we’re feeling. So, give yourself permission to fall down, but don’t give yourself permission to stay there.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“We’re stuck with ourselves all the time, with the thoughts that race around our brains at 10,000 mph, with our feelings, with our daily dramas and our ongoing struggles. But by thinking about someone else, authentically listening to and connecting with another person, you focus less on all your own strife and struggles. You get a break from you.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“We are the crazy, cool cancer misfits trying to find our way after the terrible trauma of treatment. We are everywhere. We are a tribe without even knowing it.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Those of us who have been through cancer know that surviving treatment isn’t where the cancer journey ends. In fact, for many of us, this is where the hardest part of the journey begins.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“It suddenly felt as though I’d spent my life as a pebble skimming the surface of my existence.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“I intend to appreciate, marvel and enjoy all the time that I have left, with cancer or without it.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Prayer is simply a vertical conversation with the powers that be, rather than a horizontal conversation with other people.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“When I meditate, it feels as though I’m a teaspoon of sugar dissolving into a warm cup of tea, only the tea is the universe and I am dissolving into everything.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Sure, ‘Stay positive’ is a cliché; it’s the oldest advice in the book. But it’s the oldest advice for a reason – because it works.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“You can love yourself better than anyone else can love you.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Do you wanna know a secret? Fear is not real.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“It’s time to greet all your feelings as friends; friends that have come to help you grow and evolve.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Right now you probably believe that if you let go of who you were before the cancer, then you might disappear altogether. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. Letting go of the old version of you is the only way to allow yourself to discover who you’ve become.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Change isn’t bad. Transformation isn’t bad. Growing, evolving, learning and renewing: these are the things that take our lives to a new level, the things that open our eyes to a whole new way of being, to experiencing a peace and happiness we never knew existed.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“I hated the person I had become through my cancer experience – she was unfamiliar, and that felt strange and incredibly uncomfortable. And to feel that way is perfectly normal.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Cancer treatment was the cocoon where I underwent an incredible transformation.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Cancer treatment didn’t take your beauty, your identity or anything else. Yes, going through that trauma changed you but, contrary to what you may believe right now, it didn’t change you for the worse – it changed you for the better.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“My life before cancer was great, but if I compare that life to the one I have now, post-treatment, I wouldn’t go back there for all the money in the world. No, really: if you told me you could rewind my life so that I never had to go through cancer treatment, I would say thank you – but no thank you.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Through the negative experience of cancer treatment you have the opportunity to rediscover yourself, to peel back the layers and connect with the very purest part of you that’s probably been buried for most of your life.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“The cancer treatment is over, and a lot of what and who you were before the cancer has gone with it.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“You could say cancer treatment took part of you away, but in doing so it allowed a purer part of who you are to come to the surface.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“This is the secret: while you were going through the pain and sorrow of cancer treatment, everything inside you was dissolving and evolving, letting go of old parts of yourself and creating new ones.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Please don’t try to ‘go back to normal’ after the trauma of cancer treatment, because you will not find it. The normal you remember before the treatment has gone, and the sooner you make peace with that, the sooner you can truly move on.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Go back to normal.’ There should be a rule that no one is allowed to say those four words to anyone who has gone through cancer treatment. How can we go back anywhere after going through cancer? Trying to ‘go back to normal’ is a waste of time; it’s impossible because there is no normal to go back to.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Surviving cancer treatment is like coming home from war.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“The treatment wasn’t the dark time for me; it was afterwards, when I fell into a black hole. - The life I remembered just didn’t fit anymore. Everything felt different: I felt different, life felt different, the whole world felt different.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment

“Cancer was my metamorphosis.”
― Saskia Lightstar, The Cancer Misfit: A Guide to Navigating Life After Treatment