Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden
Arthur Goldenis an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 December 1956
CountryUnited States of America
good-day bad-day essence
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.
thinking world needs
I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
rain stones enough
Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
mother water stones
My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
grief grieving one-day
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.
moving opportunity destiny
If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
song mind singing
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
powerful iron fire
Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
fighting kind urgency
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
inspirational life one-direction
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.
confidence fighting men
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.
pain thinking speak
I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.
giving-up rivers dams
Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.
inspirational strength success
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.