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

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Love your kids and just be there for them. You don’t have to eyeball their every moment or to orchestrate all their comings and goings. They know this. They know that’s too much.

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

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.

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

Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to.

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 . . .

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.

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

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

Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way.

It's through traveling you make the great journey into yourself, and it's the clarity of extremes in traveling that forces you to meet yourself like you've never met yourself before.

Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away.

It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.

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.

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.

If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.

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.

I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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?

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 . . .

As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?

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

Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.

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

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

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

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

Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.

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

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

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

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

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

So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.

Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time.

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.

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.

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.