
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
Variant: I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.
Source: Flowers for Algernon
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
Variant: I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.
"Letter to N.N.," quoted by Havelock Ellis in "The New Spirit" http://books.google.com/books?id=xCp6OIGcojMC& (1892) p. 226
“I am Luis Pie and I am here to make my own path. To fight in my own way.”
After winning the Central American and Caribbean Games gold medal after disputing the national team position http://www.elcaribe.com.do/2014/11/17/luis-pie-logra-oro-taekwondo-tiro-plato-tambien-brillo with the Olympic and regional multi medalist Gabriel Mercedes. (17 November 2014)
“I am not only a thing, but also a way of being”
one of many ways — and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.
Flowers for Algernon (1966)
“Who am I helping, what am I breaking, what am I giving, what am I taking?”
1930s, On my Painting (1938)
Undated
Source: Conversation with Prem Rawat The Prem Rawat Foundation