Wisdom Quote by Arthur Golden — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.”

“I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories.”

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”

“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.”

“When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”

“I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.”

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”

“Avoid judging others, because nobody knows the beauty and the weight of what it means to be who they are.”

“Wenn man noch nicht den Menschen dienen kann, wie sollte man den Geistern dienen können?”

“I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's”

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”