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Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.

Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life.
– Pat Conroy

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  3. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. – Pat Conroy
  4. Help them, but don’t make friends with them. – Pat Conroy
  5. If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he’s always known to be a dream, then he’s among the fortunate ones. – Kamila Shamsie
  6. The Greatest loss in life is the loss of a mother: The second greatest, the loss of Self. – Med Saidi
  7. Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable. – CM Stunich
  8. If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular-”all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  9. You have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime. – Ziad K Abdelnour
  10. the depth of a person’s character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. – Frank E Peretti
  11. The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65) – JeanYves Leloup
  12. It’s not a person’s depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent. – Anne Michaels
  13. . . .for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth – Charles ens
  14. The depth of friendship depends on the depth of our love. – Debasish Mridha
  15. There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one’s existence a minor work of art. – Pat Conroy
  16. It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much. – Pat Conroy
  17. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. – Pat Conroy
  18. I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little. – Pat Conroy
  19. The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. – Pat Conroy
  20. A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. – Pat Conroy
  21. I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. – Pat Conroy
  22. 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. – Pat Conroy
  23. Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
  24. Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains. – Pat Conroy
  25. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. – Pat Conroy
  26. He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. – Pat Conroy
  27. Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. – Pat Conroy
  28. 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
  29. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. – Pat Conroy
  30. Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. – Pat Conroy
  31. Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood. – Pat Conroy
  32. The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy
  33. It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. – Pat Conroy
  34. The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. – Pat Conroy
  35. She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. – Pat Conroy
  36. You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world. – Pat Conroy
  37. A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. – Pat Conroy
  38. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards. – Pat Conroy
  39. Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. – Pat Conroy
  40. Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. – Pat Conroy

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