Arthur Golden Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, One Direction

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

• After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

  Arthur Golden

  Fear, Water, Ponds

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

• 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.

  Arthur Golden

  Mother, Water, Stones

• Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

  Arthur Golden

  Powerful, Fire, Iron

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. 2005.

• 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]

  Arthur Golden

  Suits You, Water, Personality

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.125, Random House

• Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

  Arthur Golden

  Water, Personality, Landscape

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.125, Random House

• 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 - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

  Arthur Golden

  Fire, Water, Personality

  "Memoirs Of A Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

• She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Artist, Deep Water

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". www.imdb.com. 2005.

• In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

  Arthur Golden

  Children, Taken, Doors

• It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!

  Arthur Golden

  Believe, Fighting, Water

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