Arthur Golden Quotes

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• 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 away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• 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.

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  Life, Saying Goodbye, Thinking

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• Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

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  Giving Up, Rivers, Dams

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• Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.

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  Moving, Fighting, Time Management

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• I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

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  Pain, Thinking, Speak

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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• A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.

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  Inspirational, Success, Fear

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• If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

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  Moving, Opportunity, Destiny

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, One Direction

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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• I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

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  Confidence, Fighting, Men

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• Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

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  Simple, Life Is, Imagine

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• Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

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  Good Day, Bad Day, Essence

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• Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.

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  Grief, Grieving, One Day

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House

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• Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

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  Dream, Adversity, World

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.370, Random House

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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.

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  Thinking, Needs, World

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• It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

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  Eye, Matter, Way

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.314, Random House

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• My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

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  Mother, Water, Stones

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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.

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  Death, Loss, Three

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• When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

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  Fighting, Kind, Urgency

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• I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

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  Beautiful, Men, Long

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House

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• Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.

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  Past, Bleak

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.345, Random House

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• My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

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  Feelings, Tears, Tables

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• He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

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  Song, Mind, Singing

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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• We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

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  Moving, Fighting, Use

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.127, Random House

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• I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

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  Sad, Trying, Misery

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.106, Random House

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• An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.

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  Believe, People, Forever

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