Esmeralda Santiago famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Joy #Pay #Moments
Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Walks #Who You Are
How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Motivational #Change #Embrace
People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent yourself. I don't know that you can do that anywhere else.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Thinking #People #Immigration
if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Art #Soul #Humanity
We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Thinking #Prejudice #Individual
In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Mother #Years #Twenties
What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Fats
Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Crazy #Doors #Track
For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.
-- Esmeralda Santiago

#Becoming #Persons

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