William Joyce Quotes

It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Beauty of mind creates freedom. Freedom of mind creates beauty.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

Dreams can never be made captive.

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

Dreams are more powerful than facts.

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power can inspire us to imagine analogous, decisive shifts in our own lives, to imagine that we, too, might one day surge above much that now looms over us.” P. 38-39

When we truly recognize that our beliefs are that powerful-we hold the key to freedom.