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 More Quotes by Arthur Golden More Quotes From Arthur Golden 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? Arthur Golden lessons wish may You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper. Arthur Golden nice morning men 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? Arthur Golden barren storm moments This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely. Arthur Golden fire dream doe Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar. Arthur Golden We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should. Arthur Golden should kindness world I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose. Arthur Golden thanking-him found world If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened. Arthur Golden evening grateful ends Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to live...when they find a cave they like, the wriggle around inside it for a while to be sure that...well, to be sure it's a nice cave, I suppose. And when they've made up their minds that it's comfortable, they mark the cave as their territory...by spitting. Arthur Golden nice home sex 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 personality fire water 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. Arthur Golden adversity tears strong wind What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done? Arthur Golden know you hair sleep This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away. Arthur Golden person details time people It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha. Arthur Golden anything because confusing culture This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English. Arthur Golden english woman character book What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. Arthur Golden keep within story limits A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory. Arthur Golden fear success inspirational
