Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Published on May 4, 2016 , under Quotes
Love It 0Source: Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).
Complete Quote: 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.
