“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
"No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons."
- Pat Conroy
Awareness
"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself."
- Pat Conroy
Self-awareness
"Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide."
- Pat Conroy
Adversity
"Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk."
- Pat Conroy
Reflection
"Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother."
- Pat Conroy
Family
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
- Will Rogers
Reflection
"Life is like a sewer … what you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
- Tom Lehrer
Reflection
"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."
- Lucille Ball
Reflection
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."
- Pema Chodron
Reflection
"Happy Tuesday! It is a good day to reflect on the week so far and spread happiness."
Reflection