“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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Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961Related quotes
“Since I only prepare for what ought to happen to me, I am never prepared for what does. Never.”
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.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
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
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)
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change