“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.
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C.G. Jung257
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961Related quotes
Frances Hardinge (1973) British children's writer
Source: The Lost Conspiracy
“Since I only prepare for what ought to happen to me, I am never prepared for what does. Never.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Como sólo me preparo para lo que debiera sucederme, no me hallo preparado para lo que me sucede. Nunca.
Voces (1943)
“I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
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Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) French painter and printmaker
Dita Amory, in Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors; Yale University Press, New Haven, 2009 - ISBN 978-0-300-14889-3, p. 4
Bonnard started to paint usually on an unstretched canvas
Maylis de Kerangal (1967) French writer
On writing in “‘What is a heart? You have an organ in your body and you have a symbol of love’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/28/maylis-de-kerangal-interview-wellcome-prize-writing in The Guardian (2017 Apr 28)
Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change