James Frey Quotes

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Step out of your cage And onto the stage It's time to start Playing your part Freedom awaits Open the gates Open your mind Freedom's a state

I left 'Spring Awakening,' and within a month of leaving the show, I came out to my parents and to my friends and broke up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment of my own and completely changed my life.

You can break through old limits, past inertia and fear, to... richness of choice, freedom, human closeness.

I had just been in some repressive situations - the black middle-class college scene and the crazy United States Air Force - and so I just felt like getting out of that. I thought, now, that I wanted to be a writer. I had something that I wanted to do, that I was interested in doing, so I wanted to pursue that.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.

If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.