James Frey Quotes

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.

To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

Whatsoever you are waiting for, you are waiting in vain. It is not going to happen, and what is going to happen has nothing to do with your expectations and your desires. You just let it come in; don't block the way. Remove yourself out of your own way. This time, with no expectations, no desires, no hopes, just meditate.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

Be content with what thou hast received, and smooth thy frowning forehead, for the door of choice is not open either to thee or me.

If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

Inner peace begins when we stop saying of things, 'I have lost it' and instead say, 'It has been returned to where it came from.' Why should it be any concern of yours who gives your things back to the world that gave them to you? The important thing is to take great care with what you have while the world lets you have it.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.