[Idiom] Tattoo

[Georgia Rodrigues]

Good evening. My name is Georgia I'm an English teacher in Brazil and I want to have a tattoo done. But I'm so used to the words that I don't know if the sentence I want to have tattooed is proper/correct in English or if I'm so used to the words that I'm just putting the portuguese words in English. I'd really appreciate your help. The sentence would be:
You are what you can bear. Does it make sense? Is it right? Do you have options for me?
Thank you very much.
Georgia.

 

[jutfrank]

Hello, Georgia.

Before we encourage you to permanently mark your skin, perhaps you could explain in depth what the idea means to you.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Good evening. My name is Georgia. I'm an English teacher in Brazil, and I want to have a tattoo done. But I'm so used to the words that I don't know if the sentence I want to have tattooed is [STRIKE]proper/[/STRIKE]correct in English or if I'm so used to the words that I'm just putting the Portuguese words in English. I'd really appreciate your help. The sentence would be:

You are what you can bear. Does it make sense? Is it right? Do you have options for me?

Thank you very much.

Georgia.

It's grammatical, but why do you want a Portuguese expression in English?

Why not a Portuguese expression in Portuguese or an English expression in English?

Or are you looking for an English expression that has a similar meaning?

Yes, tell us more about your idea.