Arthur Golden: Trending quotes (page 2)

“A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.”

“We can never flee the misery that is within us.”

“If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.”

“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]”

“Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.”

“We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.”

“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?”

“I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.”

“Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.”

“It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.”

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

“An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.”

“Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.”

“Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”

“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”