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.

  • Anaphylactic_Gock@lemmy.world
    171·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • dudebro@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.