
“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.
“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.
“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)
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)
“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)
“A terrible thing has happened to me: I believe I am finding God.”
Quote of Gleizes, 1918; as cited by Daniel Robbins, in Albert Gleizes 1881 – 1953, A Retrospective Exhibition, published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1964 - in collaboration with Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris & Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
remark to his wife Juliette Roche during the winter of 1918 at the Gleizes' rented house in Pelham, New York
1910s