Book: Memoirs of a geisha. Page 6

Sadness is a feeling we are helpless upon meeting her. It resembles a window opening up by itself.

Mameha again I walked around the corner, and this time was a stately gait, with downcast eyes. She momentarily caught my eye and quickly averted his eyes to the side. I can say, I felt a jolt of electricity. If I were a man, probably would have decided that she is a prisoner of very strong feelings, but tries to suppress them in himself.
- If I can Express these feelings with their ordinary eyes, ' she said to me, - think how much you will be able to tell her. Do not be surprised if you will bring a man to unconscious state in the street....

Keep your heart closed, because nothing lasts forever. Don't get attached to anything, because that will either go in the end will break your heart.

... now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever they were, but their wins and losses we have to endure, because soon will rise new wave, but it will be a new story...

Men always tend to notice your eyes and try to understand what information you pass through them, even if you don't.

... human beings are just part of something much bigger. In passing, for example, we may crush a beetle or simply change air flow, which a fly can be where she is without us ever got. And if we think about these examples, but only with us in the role of insects, and about the universe, our role becomes clear that every day we are affected by the forces that oppose is not the same as a beetle can not resist our giant foot. What can we do? We must use the available methods to understand the movement of the universe around us and to correlate them with our actions, not to resist, and to move in unison with them....