“Adversity 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.”
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
“Can’t you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.”
-Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
THE WONDERMIND 