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

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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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]
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And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.
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The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
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For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
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I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
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Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.
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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
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I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.
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After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
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A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.
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By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.
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Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
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Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.
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Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
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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.
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We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy we become geisha because we have no choice.
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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.
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What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
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