“We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become.”

“What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.”

“We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.”

“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.”

“It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.”

“Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we did not know.”

“I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.”

“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”