Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter
On being questioned about having a meal with Jessica Simpson in November 2006 <br class="br">2006). "John Mayer Speaks About Eating With Jessica" http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah2793.shtml AccessHollywood.com (accessed January 11, 2007
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) expressionist painter
written in her Journal, 1905
Quote of Werefkin's Journal, 1905; in Briefe an einen Unbekannten, ed. Clemens Weiler, Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont, 1960, p. 50
1895 - 1905
“I am aware, that I am a woman, and I enjoy being a woman.”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
Variant: I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“I can choose. I have to choose.”
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
We the People interview (1996)
Context: I can choose. I have to choose. I have to make my mind up whom I will take into my arms, to whom I will lose myself, whom I will treat as that vis-a-vis, that face into which I look, which I lovingly touch with my fingering gaze, from whom I accept being who I am as a gift.
