What's a quote that has stuck with you for your whole life?

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I always loved browsing such posts on reddit, so thought I should make one on lemmy too

Edit: Usually these kind of posts only used to have excerpts from books or ancient proverbs, but now I am seeing a lot more quotes from shows/movies/games are also resonating with people. It's pretty cool to see.

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I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.

  • Mewtwo

I thought about that quote a lot when I first began transitioning.

Circumstances do matter, though.

For example, you're not very likely to become a Christian being raised Muslim in Iran. As much as we'd like to believe we can shape ourselves, we're only a part of the equation.