John Taylor Gatto Quotes

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately.

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role isn't right for me'. And you have to start writing your own life and doing your own thing.

Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I believe in letting each person find what they need and not getting involved with their destiny.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'

I want people to be the authors of their own life story.

Why make life so dull when you can make it exciting and meet amazing people and go to countries and see things? You make life the way you want it to be. A lot of people don't realize that at the end of the day, the ultimate control of what you do and your destiny, it lies in the way you want to direct yourself.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

For the first time in my life I've done something for me and by choice and not because somebody told me it was good or bad.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

One creates oneself.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

You can write your own history.

Who am I to say anybody can't do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something?

You choose who you want to be.

Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.