Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden 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 Copy Share Image
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Some times we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.” — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which… — Arthur Golden 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“The moment I formulated this thought, everything aroud me seemed to droop heavily toward the earth. Outside in the garden, the eaves… — Arthur Golden 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 Copy Share Image
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“I was hardly worthy of these surroundings. And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped about my body, and… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab,… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. — Arthur Golden 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 Copy Share Image
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and… — Arthur Golden 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 direction, so… — Arthur Golden 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 simply cause… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. — Arthur Golden 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 about it… — Arthur Golden 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 also tears… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty as if… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
