The Legacy Quotes
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.
Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.
Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.
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.
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.
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.
Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.
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.
Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.
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.
If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.
Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.
You have the ability to shine and make a mark in some field. Your job is to find your niche, excel and build a lasting legacy.
Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.
Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.
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.
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.
Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.
Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons.
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.
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.
I remember once kissing you, your face lit by northern stars. Promising to grow old with you, and now so simply breaking the promise.
I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.
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 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
Take the chair and sit at the fore-front of your dreams. You are the chair-person at the center of affairs
After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.
We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely.
If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.
Some people behind leave a legacy, some leave behind children. Which would you prefer?
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.
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 spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren’t stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.
Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.
The greatest legacy a father can leave for his children before he departs is PEACE, otherwise his properties will go in PIECES sooner that he dies.
I asked my dad what people would remember sooner, the things I said or the things I did. His response was: Forgive me, but what people?
There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.
