Espiritu Quotes & Sayings

My heart and my soul are best of friends.
And their friendship started
the day you and I first met. — Frederick Espiritu

If you wish to know the truth of who you are,
follow the voice that calls you home.
Go there.
For where our love is,
there we will be. — Frederick Espiritu

I've learned a hundred secrets,
a thousand mysteries
and a million more.
But of all the lessons I learned,
the greatest is love. — Frederick Espiritu

No words - Buddha's, mine, or anyone else's - can see for you. — Steve Hagen

The truth for every superhero is that beneath the greatest pain lies the greatest power. — Frederick Espiritu

Do you want to see all the wrong things in our world?
You sit right there.
Then notice how many people move too fast about in life,
they go blind over the miracle of being in the moment.

Now, do you want to see all the right things?
Well I can't honestly speak for others.
But this is how it always works for me.
I just sit right here.

Right here. Beside you.

Then silently,
I notice how all the wrong things in my world
just seem to start falling
into their rightful places.

Right here. Beside you. — Frederick Espiritu

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work. — Honore De Balzac

Sometimes, it becomes necessary for you to hit the bottom, and hit really hard that it awakens you. — Frederick Espiritu

Life is the result of the choice we make.
Imagine what it could be
if only we were not afraid. — Frederick Espiritu

People take power trips at the most inopportune times. — Lida Sideris

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads. — Karen Maitland

Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes. — Robert Love

There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. — Michael Lewis

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el espiritu del mundo. I change myself, I change the world. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

I can't leave you behind. You're with me all the time. — Ellen Sussman

Even a clock has teeth and time has a bite all of its own. — Gregory Maguire

Be rather like a strong, big old tree, firmly anchored in your soil, deeply rooted, knowing yourself, knowing what you are anchored into, which is Source and Truth, and no currents from the outside world, no matter how strong, have any sway over you. — Maha Devi Li Ra La

Be you.
That, my friend,
is the change you want
to become in the world. — Frederick Espiritu

Today, we live in a culture that wants physical proof. We need something tangible to touch, to see in order for us to believe. But you don't always have to see to believe. For centuries and up until now, many people are trying to remove God out of this world. Not seeing doesn't mean it is not real. Can we see the air we breathe? Can we touch it? Of course not, we can only feel it. — Dhenn Espiritu

If breath is as close as I can get,
tomorrow, I'll become the wind
just to be with you again. — Frederick Espiritu

In Living in Spanglish I posit the coming of existence of this forwars-looking race that obliterates all races, stripping away Vasaconelos's petty resentment of Anglo culture and patronizing Euro-centrist, and acknowledge a cultural-economic inevitability that is hemispheric in nature.
Note: Jose Vasaconelos wrote 1925 essay "La Raza cosmica" [The Cosmic Race] asserting, "Por mi raza hablara mi espiritu [The Spirit will speak through my race. — Ed Morales

Tear me apart for your view.
Open the window of my wounds.
To catch one glimpse of you
is worth a thousand cures. — Frederick Espiritu

Where there is love, there is no need.
Where there is need, there is suffering. — Frederick Espiritu

Love is silent. Yet it could fill the spaces no other sound can ever do. Truth is there's no sound without silence. We can listen to all the beautiful songs, but unless we can hear where the music is coming from, the empty spaces of our lives can never be filled and the song we sing will have no meaning. — Frederick Espiritu

For me, it's a great thing to tell people anything is possible. When I was 15, people told me 'You're not going to be a DJ.' — Afrojack

Shit! Halvorsen thought furiously, and for a moment one hand clawed under his sport-coat where there was a .38 in a clamshell holster. Then sanity reasserted itself. This was no drug bust or armed robbery; this was a crippled black lady in a wheelchair. She was rolling it like it was some punk's drag-racer, but a crippled black lady was all she was just the same. What was he going to do, shoot her? That would be great, wouldn't it? And where was she going to go? There was nothing at the end of the aisle but two dressing rooms. — Stephen King

Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts ... ... Knowing is KEY to acceptance. — Abby Espiritu

Champions and winners conquer fear. But true masters conquer themselves. — Frederick Espiritu

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film. — Mike Mills

Happiness is a choice. Don't let the outside world choose it for you. — Frederick Espiritu

Courage brought me here.
I desperately tried to dress myself with words.
Yet excuses can no longer defend my walls.

So here I am.
Clueless.
Defenseless.
But I will tell you this,
for this is all you have to know.

I love you.

Nothing in this life is more worth
fighting for than that. — Frederick Espiritu

Our efforts and actions produce results. These results come unlabeled. WE label them as success or failure based on OUR expectations. Don't forget that these labels are interchangeable if we allow ourselves to be free from an unhealthy attachment to our expectations. — Steve Maraboli

If you are not for us, then you are against us! One day we will be living alongside you in those mansions. Your choice. Share or lose it all. We're going to take Africa away from its colonial masters. Step aside gracefully, we'll let you stay. Fight us and we'll drive you out. — Richard H. Mcbee Jr.

Don't measure how far still you've got to go, but how far you've already gone to get to the point where you are now. — Frederick Espiritu