I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
Sonia SotomayorRead
Diabetes taught me discipline.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of discipline learned through managing diabetes.
In this quote, Sonia Sotomayor reflects on her experience with diabetes, suggesting that her condition has instilled in her a sense of discipline that has shaped her life. The management and challenges of living with diabetes require a commitment to regular habits, careful monitoring, and self-control, which can translate into broader life lessons about perseverance and responsibility.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.
This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.
It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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