Arthur Golden quotes

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away. (Arthur Golden)
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. View quote
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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains. View quote
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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. View quote
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A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast. View quote
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We can never flee the misery that is within us. View quote
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I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about. [Mameha]. View quote
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Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it. View quote
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We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice. (Arthur Golden)
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. View quote
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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world. View quote
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He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. View quote
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If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. View quote
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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. View quote
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I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him. View quote
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Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day. View quote
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When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife. View quote
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Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine. View quote
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We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. (Arthur Golden)
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it. View quote
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I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. View quote
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. View quote
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At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it. View quote
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