Arthur Golden Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Arthur Golden on Wise Famous Quotes.
If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.
All my hard work in overhearing it was it was about as rewarding to me as a man who lugs a chest up the hill only to learn that its full of rocks.
Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.
Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. a
But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
I felt I was standing on a stage many hours after the dance had ended, when the silence lay as heavily upon the empty theater as a blanket of snow.
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
I knew he noticed the tress, and the mud, and the children in the street, but I had no reason to believe he'd ever notice me.
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.
And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it.
It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.
Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us
Hatsumomo's lovely smille grew ... until her lips were as rich and full as drops of blood beading at the edge of a wound
Whatever our struggles,and whether we sink or swim,our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean
We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all.
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
I can tolerate his company for about half an hour. After that I am not responsible for the things I say!
Isn't there one thing I can ask of you that you won't disregard? ... You could just reply, "Yes, Baron," and be done with it.'
Yes, Baron.
Yes, Baron.
Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
The very idea!" he said, with another big laugh. "You, growing up in a dump like Yoroido. That's like making tea in a bucket!
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
Now, Chiyo, stumbling along in life is a poor way to proceed. You must learn how to find the time and place for things.
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.