“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
"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
"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."
- Pat Conroy
Reflection
"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
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity