Carew Papritz Quotes

Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.

It is everything that makes a man. It is everything that makes this man. And that is who I am alive, and that is who I am dead.

No one OWES you a THING. So don’t EXPECT it. You’re on your OWN.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?

I can FEEL her next to me. This UNION. Of WARMTH. Of CARING. Of the INDESCRIBABLE. As if there were NO PARTING and NEVER could be.

What good is an “I LOVE YOU” If said only when you have to?What good is it to ride a horse if you cannot gallop?What good is it to believe in someone if you doubt your own belief?

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

You become a man when, in having children, you not only physically look after and protect them but also protect them with all the love and learning you have to give.

Starting the day—Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer—both solemn and joyful at still being alive . . .

Enjoy what you are learning and doing. This is one of the hardest concepts in the entire world to understand. Harder yet to put into practice.

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.

Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.

Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see."- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz

You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.

Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe." -- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz"Things I didn't know.

I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.

I remember once kissing you, your face lit by northern stars. Promising to grow old with you, and now so simply breaking the promise.

You might want more time in your life to attempt the things you like to do, and not just perform the things you have to do.

When do you become a man? Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons.

Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.

HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.

Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously-with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice.

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.

Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.

Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.