James Frey Quotes

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

The new era which is dawning in our country, beneath the great southern stars, will lift us out of the silent grief of our past and into a future in which there will be opportunity and space for joy and beauty-for real and lasting peace.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

You don't have to fight for your life anymore. You're starting a new one.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

A child can escape the shadows.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

The arts saved my life.

It's not that I was crazy. It's just that I was sad at times because the world was sad at times. When I would perform, it wasn't sad anymore.

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

Recovery is really important.

Forgiveness provides hope, joy, and a bright future that nothing else can.

There is a better place, the hard but joyful work beyond struggle, beyond the shadow of a doubt. It is our real home, the long-remembered future when everything worked and things made sense.