James Frey: Living

James Frey is American screenwriter and media presenter. Explore interesting quotes on living.

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“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says.
Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.
Cry.
Cry.
Cry.”

“Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Variant: Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.
Source: A Million Little Pieces

“You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

“Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Source: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“To live with angels and chase their dreams.”

James Frey Bright Shiny Morning

Source: Bright Shiny Morning

“Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

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Source: A Million Little Pieces (2003)
Context: All of us started out normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives we got lost. Though we are here at this Clinic trying to find our way back, we all know that most of us will never get there. Things like the fight allow us to dream, and take us away from here, and allow us to imagine what the normal World must be like and how normal people must live in it.

“What I know is that I can trust his eyes because what lives in them, lives in me.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

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A Million Little Pieces (2003)

“All of us started out normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives we got lost. Though we are here at this Clinic trying to find our way back, we all know that most of us will never get there. Things like the fight allow us to dream, and take us away from here, and allow us to imagine what the normal World must be like and how normal people must live in it.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

page 332
A Million Little Pieces (2003)