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

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.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

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

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

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

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.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.