If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.
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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.
Arthur GoldenAdversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.
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Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.
Arthur GoldenSometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.
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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 GoldenSome people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.
Arthur GoldenHis 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 GoldenHe was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.
Arthur GoldenA mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
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