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I love quotes. I have them plastered on my walls, around my desk, above my mirror, in my car, on my clothes, mugs, cards, everywhere. Some people collect dolls. I collect quotes. I posted a quote on my blog and it got me thinking. I was hoping you could add some of your favorite quotes, about living life with diabetes, or just life in general. I could use some inspiration today. One quote I love that reminds me of my life with diabetes--all the sticking--the bumps, bruises, fingerprick marks, hardened skin, and it comes from Jane Hirschfield's "For What Binds Us." It is:

"..see how the flesh grows back across a wound, with a great vehemence, more strong than the simple, untested surface before. There's a name for it on horses, whwen it come back darker and raised: proud flesh, as all flesh is proud of its wounds, wears them as honors given out after battle, small triumphs pinned to the chest--"

Can you share a quote you love with me?

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No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

From one of Samuel Beckett's prose works, Worstward Ho (I think,but don't quote me on that. Boom boom.). Despite the lazy assumptions that Smilin' Sam was all about despair and monotony, I really rather like the idea of aspiring to fail better. There's something muddily realistic about it. And it says a lot about my relationship with blood sugar. Motto for my life.

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Thanks, Ross, for reminding me of this excellent quote!.....Judith

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i dint understand it. can u explain please. :(

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Ross, Why am I just seeing this now? This is one of my most favorite quotes, as well. In fact, it's the signature on my email! :) Great minds????

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My favorites: "Lead, follow, or get out of the way", "Today is a good day to die", and "Communication is a good thing" (my own creation).

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I like:
"Think not of the harvest reaped but of the seeds that have been sown" - Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"

I can't, for the life of me, remember what movie I heard this in but it was also in the the best-selling autobiography, called WILL by the famous Watergate burglar, G. Gordon Liddy.

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Oh my, Chris. That's good old Nietzsche, Teutonic philosopher fella! I adapted that one for myself to whatever doesn't kill me will probably really piss me off and that's ok, too!.....

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Hey Chris
That one's really great! My grandfather taught me both the "Pennies make dollars" And "Whatever don't kill me makes me stronger" I also have another one " It could be worse look around you and see what others have wrong with them and be thankful that isn't you!"

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why do I toss out pennies all the time?

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HA! Keep them! 100 make a dollar!!!!

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"if you see ten trains coming down the track, nine of them will derail before they get to you." - Calvin Coolidge on keeping your composure.

"I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never going to keep me down." - Chumbawamba

"Whatever doesn't kill me, weakens me for the final blow." (Apologies to Chris for this, but I couldn't resist. The original never made complete sense to me.)

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