Quotes that describe your "diabetes situation"

Failure is not an option

Platoon.

"The disease that doesn't knock before it enters." Susan Sontag. She was refering to cancer but it certainly applies to D as well.

Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent.
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully.
"It's the same thing," he said.
Winnie the Pooh

This is an OLD post but would LOVE to see more quotes added here and use them in our social media channels.

Here is ours:

Diabetes is a great example whereby, giving the patient the tools, you can manage yourself very well. Clayton Christensen

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The Laws of Small Numbers - Diabetes Solution - Dr. Bernstein

“Big inputs make big mistakes; small inputs make small mistakes.”

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Paul Smith - "Diabetes, Technology, and Children

About the 3:12 mark:

You wouldn’t give someone who is lactose intolerant a glass of milk and then treat them with imodium, why on earth would you do something similar with diabetes?

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Two main characters after a series of a vicious hand to hand battles battle, find one another alive.

Moiraine:
You were better than he ?

Lan:
He was better But he thought I was finished with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you’re dead. (Highlighting mine)

A sentiment as a diabetic I understand.

A quote from Robert Jordan’s Prequel “The New Spring”, in his Wheel of Time series

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