Insulin Injections Quotes & Sayings

If you were never encouraged to be yourself, you often try to blend in instead of standing out. It's a sense of "if only I was 'this,' then someone would love me. — David Mezzapelle

Stephen could not have been more different than they. When he once more turned back, Ezra took the opportunity to ask, "Are you perhaps a member of the Sadducees?" The younger man gave Ezra his full attention. "Not now, not ever," he answered with a slight shake of his head. "I believe in the afterlife and the union with the risen Lord. As do all followers of the Way. — Janette Oke

Every action has an impact; choose wisely the impact you want to have. — Mindy Hall

Three times a day Petrovich showed up at the nurse's office for his injections, always using the hypodermic needle himself like the most craven of junkies, though after shooting up he would play the concert piano in the auditorium with astounding artistry, as though insulin were the elixir of genius. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I'd rather have drugs and liquor and divine visions than this empty barren fatalism on a mountaintop," he wrote toward the end of his stint. These words are especially poignant when you consider that two years earlier he'd written to Allen Ginsberg: "I have crossed the ocean of suffering and found the path at last." For Kerouac, the path of Buddhism proved too difficult, too alien to his temperament, and he eventually retreated into the mystical French Catholicism he'd known as a boy. Its fascination with the martyrdom of the Crucifixion jibed with his sense of himself as a doomed prophet destined for self-annihilation. The essential Buddhist ethic - do no violence to any living being - was a principle that tragically eluded him in his treatment of himself. — Philip Connors

... He sounded as though he had just seen The Pokey Little Puppy meet the business end of The Little Engine That Could. — Thomm Quackenbush

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange - — Alexandre Dumas

When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha. — Jeffrey Gundlach

A shoat squealing under a fence just attracts the fox, when it should be trying to run. — Robert Jordan

I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself ... I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore — Michelle Hodkin

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion. — A.A. Milne