Best Quotes by Arthur Golden (Top 10)
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He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Arthur Golden
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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.
Arthur Golden
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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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I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
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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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Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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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.
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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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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.
Arthur Golden
More Arthur Golden Quotes
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A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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We can never flee the misery that is within us.
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If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
Arthur Golden
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Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
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Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
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It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
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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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Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
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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
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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."
Arthur Golden