My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes resilience and adaptability in the face of challenges.
In this quote, Arthur Golden highlights the qualities of water as a metaphor for human strength and adaptability. Just as water is capable of carving paths through solid stone over time, individuals can overcome obstacles and find new ways to thrive when faced with adversity. This reflection on the nature of water symbolizes the importance of persistence and the ability to change course when necessary, illustrating how resilience can lead to growth and transformation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming life's challenges.
We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.
An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the fingerprints of everyone who has touched them.
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters.
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Behind every sweet smile, there is a bitter sadness that no one can ever see and feel.
They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
The loneliest moment in someoneβs life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
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