"Either you push forward with the things you were doing yesterday, or you start dying."

[Hissyspit]

Elizabeth Edwards in 60 Minutes interview.

JOHN: "We get to live our lives fully... We get to make that choice."

[Bluzmann57]

1. Ya know, I have tears in my eyes

I'm a guy and guys aren't supposed to show emotion like this, but dammit, Elizabeth Edwards is one helluva tough lady. Tougher than most men I know.

[femmocrat]

2. God Bless them both....

They have incredible courage.

And he said if anyone plans to vote for them because she has cancer, DON'T. Let's hope that shuts up the nay-sayers who are saying they are using her cancer to gain some sort of advantage.

[AnnInLa]

3. And, you don't hide your cancer in the closet anymore

You don't become a handicapped person, to be hidden away from other people. You get on with living as full a life as you can.

Thank you Gayle, for teaching me this.

[saltpoint]

4. Yes. An impressive talk with John and Elizabeth Edwards.

It's hard to argue with that kind of positive, affirming attitude in the face of adversity.

[karlrschneider]

5. Just like in Shawshank.

...

[Jacklyn75]

6. I loved this interview with them but can't stand Couric!

I thought she was mean. Elizabeth is such a beautiful person, inside and out! I love her!

[Island Blue]

7. As that great philosopher Jimmy Buffett once said,

"I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead."

[glitch]

8. "I want to be alive when I die" Margaret Bourke-White

One of my favorite quotes.
Another one: "Live while you can, there's plenty of time to be dead" from a greeting card.

[rhiannon55]

9. And the great Bob Dylan said

"Let me die in my footsteps before I go down under the ground."

That's what Elizabeth wants to do. What a beautiful, brave woman!

[Pachamama]

10. We all are going to die someday, atleast I know what I'm going to die of..

Elizabeth said something like that and between that statement and the one you showed in your OP, I have to say that I was so moved by her and that she and John are at peace with what may lie ahead for them and that they are living each day at a time.

Their statements in this interview can be applied on so many levels to so many things and I think they are such a wonderful and inspiring couple.

[earth mom]

11. Both Elizabeth and John were eloquent and classy tonight. eom

[crappyjazz]

12. Again, class and dignity

America needs them

Couric can kiss my ass