I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

According to convention, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real “me” than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is!

I am what I have become

De manera que, poniéndome en el lugar del oráculo y preguntándome qué es lo que preferiría ser, lo que soy yo o lo que son ellos, saber lo que ellos han aprendido o saber que no sé nada, me he respondido a mí mismo y al Dios: Quiero seguir siendo lo que soy.

and what is writ, is writ,
Would it were worthier! but I am not now
That which I have been

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

I am whoever I am when I am it.

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

No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.

You are what you are not and are not what you are.

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

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.