A biography for Valerie Harperhasn’t been written yet.
“When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'”
“Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren't. That's the past. Let it go.”
“We don't know what's around the corner.”
“I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.”
“If I wake up in the night terrified, I try to find a way to not let the fear have me. Every moment you spend in fear of cancer is a moment you've wasted enjoying life. Replace that fear - get in the moment and enjoy it.”
“Death is out there for all of us.”
“Life has sweetness to it and a beauty and a power that I wanted to celebrate.”
“I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.”