“We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become.”
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
“What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.”
Ships and Havens, ch. 2 (1898).
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