Citas de Memorias de una Geisha

• La adversidad es como un viento fuerte. No me refiero sólo a que nos retiene de lugares a los que de otro modo podríamos ir. También nos arranca todo, menos lo que no se puede arrancar, para que después nos veamos como realmente somos.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspiración, Fuerza, Éxito

  "Memorias de una Geisha". Libro de Arthur Golden, 27 de septiembre de 1997.

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• 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.

  Arthur Golden

  Grief, Grieving, One Day

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House

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• I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

  Arthur Golden

  Thinking, Needs, World

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspirational, Life, One Direction

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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• No sé cuándo volveremos a vernos ni cómo será el mundo cuando lo hagamos. Puede que ambos hayamos visto muchas cosas horribles. Pero pensaré en ti cada vez que necesite que me recuerden que hay belleza y bondad en el mundo.

  Arthur Golden

  Vida, Despedirse, Pensar

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• We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should.

  Arthur Golden

  Kindness, World, Should

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• He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

  Arthur Golden

  Song, Mind, Singing

  "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, 1997.

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• At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

  Arthur Golden

  Kind, Painful, Melancholy

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.187, Random House

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• We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.

  Arthur Golden

  Moving, Fighting, Use

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.127, Random House

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• I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.

  Arthur Golden

  Grief, Sadness, Grieving

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Choices, Want, Geisha

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.409, Random House

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• Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

  Arthur Golden

  Mushrooms, Two, Lovely

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• Incluso la piedra puede desgastarse con suficiente lluvia.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Stones, Enough

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House

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• Por supuesto, una señal no significa nada si no se sabe interpretar.

  Arthur Golden

  Mean, Courses, Know How

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• I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

  Arthur Golden

  Geisha

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• From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

  Arthur Golden

  Men, Giving, Dancer

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• 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.

  Arthur Golden

  Confidence, Fighting, Men

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• If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

  Arthur Golden

  Rain, Years, Suffering

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.94, Random House

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• Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

  Arthur Golden

  Ocean, Struggle, Our World

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• Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.

  Arthur Golden

  Dream, Adversity, World

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.370, Random House

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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.

  Arthur Golden

  Struggle, Worry, Effort

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.9, Random House

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• Una mente atormentada por la duda no puede centrarse en el camino de la victoria.

  Arthur Golden

  Inspiración, Éxito, Miedo

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• Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?

  Arthur Golden

  Storm, Moments, Barren

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.13, Random House

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• I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

  Arthur Golden

  Beautiful, Men, Long

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House

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• How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

  Arthur Golden

  Wish, Lessons, May

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