A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

Arthur Golden

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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.

one-direction inspirational life

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singi... by Arthur Golden

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

singing mind song

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. by Arthur Golden

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

helpless said

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

destiny men needs

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

luck sight wish

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

ponds fear water

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

adversity dream world

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there i... by Arthur Golden

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

world needs thinking

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more re... by Arthur Golden

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

real remember thinking

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

one-day hope heart

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

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.

good-day bad-day essence

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

eye matter way

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain. by Arthur Golden

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

enough stones rain

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even... by Arthur Golden

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

iron powerful fire

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine. by Arthur Golden

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

imagine simple life-is

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. by Arthur Golden

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

excitement passing saws

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.

tears tables feelings

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.

taken doors children

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

simple writing men