Quotes from Arthur Golden

Nada es más triste que el futuro, salvo, quizás, el pasado.

Quali siano stati i nostri conflitti e i nostri trionfi, per quanto indelebile sia il segno che questi abbiano potuto lasciare su di noi, finiscono sempre per stemperarsi come una tinta ad acquerello su un foglio di carta.

Though I must say, I lived in that contented state a long while before I was finally able to look back and admit how desolate my life had once been. I'm sure I could never have told my story otherwise; I don't

think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before

Incluso las rocas terminan erosionándose con la lluvia.

Kesedihan adalah hal yang ganjil sekali; kita jadi tak berdaya di hadapannya. Seperti jendela yang membuka atas kemauannya sendiri. Ruangan menjadi dingin, dan kita tak bisa berbuat apa pun kecuali gemetar kedinginan. Namun setiap kali terbuka kembali, lebarnya sedikit berkurang, makin lama makin sempit; dan pada suatu hari kita bertanya-tanya sendiri, apa yang terjadi dengan jendela itu.

Granny, as I went on to learn, was more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirsty old man.

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.

L'acqua si scava la strada attraverso la pietra, e quando è intrappolata, l'acqua si crea un nuovo varco. L'acqua è potente: spegne il fuoco, scava la pietra, distrugge il ferro.

Kad sam ?ula kako to govori, suze su mi jednostavno probile krhki zid koji ih je zadržavao i sa strašnim osje?ajem srama, položila sam glavu na stol i pustila ih sa se izliju iz mene.

ali mogao si pretražiti cijeli Kyoto i ne bi našao dvoje ljudi koji su toliko uživali biti jedno s drugim kao oni.

Kad treba preboljeti razo?arenje, nema ni?eg boljeg od rada.

Me pregunté si los hombres se dejarían cegar hasta tal punto por la belleza que llegaran a sentirse privilegiados de poder vivir con un verdadero demonio, mientras fuera un demonio hermoso.

Nikad dotad u životu nisam osje?ala takvu bliskost s nekim drugim ljudskim bi?em, iako nismo progovorili ni rije?i.

Ako uvijek imaš na umu svoju sudbinu, na svaki ?eš trenutak u životu gledati kao na priliku da se malo više približiš svome cilju.

Sometimes we go through the worst time by imaging how the world would be if our dreams come true.

Trgovac koji ostavlja otvorene prozore trgovine ne može se ljutiti na kišu koja mu je uništila robu.

When a woman walks, she should give the impression of waves rippling over a sandbar.

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 anymore.

It's not what you wear or how you look, it's what you feel like that makes you what you are

There's nothing like work for getting over a disappointment.