“Nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.” — Arthur Golden Disappointment Copy Share Image
A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge. — Arthur Golden Cat Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true. — Arthur Golden Adversity Copy Share Image
Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
“Chairman: "Sometimes", he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.” — Arthur Golden Sighed Copy Share Image
of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will. — Arthur Golden Change Copy Share Image
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. — Arthur Golden Doubt Copy Share Image
We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. — Arthur Golden Kindness Copy Share Image
When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. — Arthur Golden Divorce Copy Share Image
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It… — Arthur Golden Adversity Copy Share Image
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read… — Arthur Golden Coffee Copy Share Image
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a… — Arthur Golden Agreement Copy Share Image
“I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life… — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches… — Arthur Golden Beautiful Copy Share Image
Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested.… — Arthur Golden Bad day Copy Share Image
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant… — Arthur Golden Brilliant Copy Share Image
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a… — Arthur Golden Parenting Copy Share Image
In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun… — Arthur Golden Children Copy Share Image
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open… — Arthur Golden Accord Copy Share Image
“As a young girl I believed my life would never have been a struggle if Mr.Tanaka hadn't torn me away from my… — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something… — Arthur Golden Flowing Copy Share Image
“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It… — Arthur Golden Adversity Copy Share Image
“I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different… — Arthur Golden Future Copy Share Image
“... agora sei que o nosso mundo não e mais permanente do que uma onda a erguer-se no oceano. E quaisquer que… — Arthur Golden Amor Copy Share Image
“Water never waits. It changes shape and floes around things, and finds the secret paths no one else thought about __ the… — Arthur Golden Elements Copy Share Image
“We human beings are only a part of something very much larger. When we walk along, we may crush a beetle or… — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around… — Arthur Golden Bottom Copy Share Image
“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep,… — Arthur Golden Darkness Copy Share Image
“I don't know for sure what ever became of Hatsumomo. A few years after the war, I heard she was making a… — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
“You're eighteen years old, Sayuri," she went on. "Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny… — Arthur Golden Day to day Copy Share Image
“I knew even then that she was right. An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to… — Arthur Golden Choice Copy Share Image
“Now she took a close look at me for the first time, puffing on her pipe while the old woman beside her… — Arthur Golden First time Copy Share Image
“Whatever any of us may have thought about Hatsumomo, she was like an empress in our okiya since she earned the income… — Arthur Golden Hot tea Copy Share Image
