250 Quotes by Arthur Golden

But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab, everything in shades of gray. It was my first look at the world outside Yoroido, and I didn't think I'd missed much. I could see the thatched roofs of the town around an inlet, amid dull hills, and beyond them the metal-colored sea, broken with shards of white. Inland, the landscape might have been attractive but for the train tracks running across it like a scar. - Chapter 2, pg 20

No puedes pretender que careces de toda influencia. Tienes la obligación de utilizar toda la influencia que tengas, a no ser que quieras ir a la deriva por la vida, como un pez panza arriba llevado por la corriente.

Sencillamente no me gusta tener delante de mí lo que no puedo alcanzar.

Nadie es capaz de hablar honestamente de sus sufrimientos hasta que no ha dejado de sentirlos.

Estava a viver apenas metade em Gion, a outra metade de mim vivia nos meus sonhos de regressar a casa. É por isso que os sonhos podem ser coisas tão perigosas; continuam acesos mesmo sem chama, e às vezes consomem-nos completamente

Eu nunca procuro derrotar o homem que estou a combater - explicou ele - procuro derrotar a confiança que ele tem em si próprio. Uma mente perturbada pela dúvida não se pode concentrar no curso em direcção a vitória. Dois homens são iguais, verdadeiramente iguais, só quando têm ambos uma autoconfiança igual

Mēs savu dzīvi nodzīvojam kā ūdens, kas plūst lejup pa kalnu, plūstam vienā virzienā, līdz atsitamies pret kaut ko, kas spiež mūs meklēt jaunu virzienu.

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.