Pat Conroy, The Lords Of Discipline Quotes
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.
I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.
I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.
He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.
There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.
...I lived for those long casual walks down the beach and the sight of her small footprints in the glistening wet sand...