The Legacy Letters Quotes

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Be the same person- with or without money.

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

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

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

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.

My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . .

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

Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy.

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.

Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You'll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS.

Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.

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 . . .

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.

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

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.

It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. So give kids the best of who you are. That’s the most you can ever do.

Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.