"No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons."
- Pat Conroy
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
"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."
- Beauty and the Beast
Self-awareness
"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."
- Beauty and the Beast
Self-awareness
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."
- Laird Hamilton
Self-awareness
"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."
Self-awareness