Pat Conroy

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#hobby #passion #skills #life

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#music

The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#inspirational

I will always find myself a prisoner to the divine sublimity of the Eucharist itself." (201) ↗

— Pat Conroy

#faith #faith

The words “I love you” could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen gulag, all the lurid sadness of death row. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#manipulation #death

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#music

Before I met the Jesuits, I’d never encountered another group who thought that intellect and arrogance were treasures beyond price and necessities in waging wars against blasphemers, heretics. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#argument #arrogance #intelligence #intelligence

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#nostalgia #school #love

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#basketball #game #sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#aging #challenges #creates #every #going