Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of. — Arthur Golden Differences Copy Share Image
You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you. — Arthur Golden Desperate Copy Share Image
Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together... — Arthur Golden Doe Copy Share Image
The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside. — Arthur Golden Girl Copy Share Image
We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things. — Arthur Golden Accustomed Copy Share Image
I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. — Arthur Golden Frankly Copy Share Image
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. — Arthur Golden Beauty Copy Share Image
It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening. — Arthur Golden Closing Copy Share Image
I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has… — Arthur Golden Apples Copy Share Image
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was… — Arthur Golden Fascinating Copy Share Image
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do… — Arthur Golden Done Copy Share Image
I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was… — Arthur Golden Emotion Copy Share Image
“When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float… — Arthur Golden Ash Copy Share Image
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me… — Arthur Golden Behinds Copy Share Image
We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that… — Arthur Golden Action Copy Share Image
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls… — Arthur Golden Covered Copy Share Image
Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away. — Arthur Golden Friend Copy Share Image
“When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.” — Arthur Golden Life lessons Copy Share Image
“But she told me I was like water..Water can carve its way through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.” — Arthur Golden River Copy Share Image
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see. — Arthur Golden Real Copy Share Image
The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish. — Arthur Golden Corridors Copy Share Image
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck. — Arthur Golden Afternoon Copy Share Image
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. — Arthur Golden Enduring 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them. — Arthur Golden Action Copy Share Image
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat. — Arthur Golden Doctors Copy Share Image
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all. — Arthur Golden Death Copy Share Image
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. — Arthur Golden Excitement Copy Share Image
I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone… — Arthur Golden Facts Copy Share Image
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the… — Arthur Golden Biographies 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 Beauty 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… — Arthur Golden Anxiety Copy Share Image
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we… — Arthur Golden Adversity Copy Share Image
“We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of… — Arthur Golden Flower 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 Barbs Copy Share Image
“There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A… — Arthur Golden Eels Copy Share Image
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both… — Arthur Golden Beauty Copy Share Image
Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind… — Arthur Golden Barren 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 Evening Copy Share Image
