“No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons.”
"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
"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
"She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"We should never judge someone based on their appearance."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"Beauty and ugliness are merely subjective labels. What matters is who we are inside."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"When we see beyond appearances, we discover the true essence of a person."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Awareness