I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a deep emotional connection and the importance of remembering the good in life amidst adversity.
In this quote, Arthur Golden reflects on the uncertainties of life and the inevitable struggles that individuals may face over time. Despite not knowing when they will reunite or the challenges that may arise, the speaker emphasizes the power of love and cherished memories, which serve as reminders of beauty and goodness in a often harsh world. This lyrical expression highlights the strength of human connection, suggesting that love can inspire resilience and hope even in difficult circumstances.
In practice
In a farewell speech, to remind everyone of the lasting bonds created through shared experiences.
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.
God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.
I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.
Maybe what a gay icon is, is a person who is rooted for β in other words, cheered on β by people who feel different.
Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may come again, deeper and closer and surer, and be with us always, even to the end of the world.
I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.
You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?
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