It's not about the bike Lance Armstrong

“I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself...believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.”

― Lance Armstrong, It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

And so the story goes on westward to the east to the north and now to the south winds take me home country roads to a place where I belong. . . It was his book that did it for me. Everyone who is battling cancer needs to read these words and read them every single day he has epic reasons to believe we are on a higher order and we will become one with our true self when we know that God as our higher power and self be one with human kindred spirit as we go. He has such a brute reality of existence for living I cannot get enough of it; it's contagious