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  • Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

    Rain   Stones   Enough  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House
  • Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.108, Random House
  • Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

  • From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

    Men   Giving   Dancer  
  • 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.

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

    "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
  • We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

    Kindness   World   Should  
  • 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.

    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House
  • Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

    Storm   Moments   Barren  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.13, Random House
  • If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

    Rain   Years   Suffering  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Song   Mind   Singing  
    "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
  • I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

    Thinking   Needs   World  
  • We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

    Choices   Want   Geisha  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.409, Random House
  • Sadness was a very heavy thing.

  • How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

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

  • 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.

    Beautiful   Men   Long  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House
  • Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

    Mushrooms   Two   Lovely  
  • I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

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

    Pain   Thinking   Speak  
    "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.
  • His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

    Struggle   Worry   Effort  
    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.9, Random House
  • Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

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

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

    "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.
  • I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.

  • At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

    Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House
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