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

I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.

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

I am what I have become

I am the me I choose to be.

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

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

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

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be,

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.

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

Now that I’m free to be myself, who am I?

It's not what's happening to you now or what's happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.