Taking Control of One's Life Quotes

A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.

Because of the discrimination during my time as a teenager I decided to live my life as I want it.

I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!

My mother implanted in me as a young girl...you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight.

I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't.

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.