"Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not."

-- Arthur Golden

#Beautiful Quotes #Geisha Quotes

“Already the scent of victory is in the air.”
“Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.”
“There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.”
“The only limit to success is your own imagination.”
“Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our thought, but our feelings and actions too, in a way which goes far beyond its official function as a biological theory.”

Source : Mary Midgley, David Midgley (2005). “The Essential Mary Midgley”, p.246, Psychology Press
“We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.56, A&C Black
“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1820). “Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage”, p.255
“Pleasure was the color of the time.”

Source : Harold Clurman (1983). “The Fervent Years: The Group Theatre and the Thirties”, p.3, Da Capo Press

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