"Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are."

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Source : "Memoirs of a Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

Arthur Golden

#Strength Quotes #Success Quotes #Encouraging Quotes

“With me, personal relationships are like my religion. I care that deeply about them. I am the complete opposite of a manipulative smoothie.”
“Example is the best precept.”
“Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.”
“Yasser Arafat remains in stable condition after dying in a Paris hospital.”
“But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, p.205, SteinerBooks
“Kids certainly need a lot of love so they know you're behind them whatever they do, well, more or less.”
“In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.”

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