“If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.” — Arthur Golden Destiny 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 Cry Copy Share Image
“He lived in a world that was visible, even if it didn't always please him to be there.” — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. — Arthur Golden Inspirational Copy Share Image
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.” — Arthur Golden Jealousy 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
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron. — Arthur Golden Earth Copy Share Image
Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end… — 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… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an… — Arthur Golden Beautiful 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 Children 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
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
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
“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
“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
Couldn't the wrong sort of living turn anyone mean? I remembered very well that one day back in Yoroido, a boy pushed… — Arthur Golden Angry Copy Share Image
What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd… — Arthur Golden Childhood Copy Share Image
“Waiting patiently doesn't suit you.I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes… — Arthur Golden Five elements Copy Share Image
“You cannot say to the sun, 'More sun,' or to the rain, 'Less rain.' To a man, geisha can only be half… — Arthur Golden Happiness Copy Share Image
“that droplet of moisture that had slipped from me like a tear seemed almost to tell the story of my life. It… — Arthur Golden Destiny Copy Share Image
She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is… — Arthur Golden Artist 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
“Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer… — Arthur Golden Children Copy Share Image
“After this, I couldn't hear their voices any longer; for in my ears I heard a sound like a bird's wings flapping… — Arthur Golden Mother 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 Dream Copy Share Image
“To the eyes of the American soldiers who drove past, I looked no different from the women around me; and as I… — Arthur Golden Soldiers 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 Grief Copy Share Image
“It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every… — Arthur Golden Life Copy Share Image
It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the… — Arthur Golden Advantage Copy Share Image
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