I am the me I choose to be.

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.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

I found that I could choose who I was, and most importantly, that who I was didn’t have to be changed by what other people thought of me.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

"I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."

I know I am deathless,
I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by a carpenter's compass,
I know I shall not pass like a child's carlacue cut with a burnt stick at night.

I know I am august,
I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood,
I see that the elementary laws never apologize,
(I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by, after all)

I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
and if each and all be aware I sit content.

One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself,
And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier.

I'm myself, not a label.