Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift Quotes

I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived.

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .

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.

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

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

Be the same person- with or without money.

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.

As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.

Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.

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.

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

Wake up. Be thankful. For whatever happens on this day, you are endlessly given the chance to start again-to be alive. And all of us should wish for that.

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

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 . . .

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?

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.

What good is an “I love you” if said only when you have to?

You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin.

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 . . .

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.

Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.

And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty.

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

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

Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.

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

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

The things you don't know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.

I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.

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.

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

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.

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

Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.

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

Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice.

Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.

And I don't care what age you are, kissing in the rain is the best.

Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning.

Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.

Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes.