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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.

Arthur Golden

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Arthur Golden
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: December 6
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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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At the temple there is a poem called Loss carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
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Sometimes, he sighed, I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
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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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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.
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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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Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
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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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We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
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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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Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
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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 geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.
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Nothing is as bleak as the future, except the past.
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When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
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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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Sadness was a very heavy thing.
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His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.
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We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.
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My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.
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