The Gift Quotes
Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.
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.
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.
You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.
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.
Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
One day I asked God to move the mountain ahead of me, but he said no because he wanted me to experience the joy of being on a mountain top.
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 . . .
We need to protect and care for our children because when society fails to protect its children, there will be no one else to learn from.
It's amazing to be a woman because even without children of your own, you can still be an excellent mother.
Motherhood has taught me that love is the best gift you can ever give to your children.
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 problem with our society today is that when things fall apart we do remember to call upon the Lord, but when God answers our prayers we are too quick to exclude Him from those answered prayers.
The weakness of one man is the strength of another, hence we all are different for a reason.
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.
Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.