134 Quotes & Sayings By Carew Papritz

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

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

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. Carew Papritz

Old is old at any age. Old is when you quit asking questions about this, that, and everything. Old is when you forget how to love-or worse, don't care. Old is when you don't want to dance anymore. Old is when you don't want to learn anything new except how to be old. Old is when people tell you that you are old-and you believe them. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

Start with a brand new good-morning. To your husband or your wife. To your kids. To those you work with - and don't work with. What's the harm? How difficult is it? And it isn't, and you know it. So do it. Carew Papritz

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

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

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

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

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. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both .. . Carew Papritz

There's so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man’s bucket. Carew Papritz

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don’t care if you’re Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It’s that SIMPLE. Carew Papritz

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

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. Carew Papritz

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

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. Carew Papritz

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive. Carew Papritz

Dream young. Don't settle for old - for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming - run like a sun's explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old. Carew Papritz

Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?... It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man. Carew Papritz

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage. Carew Papritz

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

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

Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

While all the universe and my family are still sleeping, I will walk among the red and blue twinkle-lights of the living room, to sit and gaze upon the pretty white angel atop the tree and say silent prayers, remembering what was good in the world and why I was brought here to remember. Carew Papritz

I want to remember... Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby- Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite... What are you going to be? And he says... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night. Carew Papritz

These Moments Cascade Upon One Another"Here at shepherd's dusk, in a valley without echo, I listen for you. With a frayed longing, I hear your shadow voice whispering within me from far away. I grasp at what is left of this husky sun lying golden upon the upper meadows of lodge pole and bear grass. 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. And I see that behind a cloak of clouds, dalliance suits the canting moon. Suddenly I do not wish to lose another moment, And I covet all pristine light. Carew Papritz

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

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

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. Carew Papritz

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

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 Carew Papritz

Starting the DayThe Legacy Letters By Carew PapritzSometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil-made cough syrup. Because somehow along the way we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals-or just good ideas. And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice. . 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. Carew Papritz

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 .. . Carew Papritz

Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time. And yes, be greedy with your hours. If only to then give those hours away as the most precious gifts you have to offer to yourself, your family, and your friends. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

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. All they want is to be assured that there's a home fire cooking, that there are two foremen and a rulebook, and that there's someone to tuck them in at night. Carew Papritz

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

There’s so much to learn. So much to enjoy. So terribly much to be curious about. Take your life and run with it. Make a habit of being alive. This much of anything, I have learned. And am still learning. 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. Carew Papritz

Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go. Carew Papritz

Remember, Little Ones, everything is not important all the time. Only living is important all the time. Not things. Not money. Not more things and more endless money. Spend well the quality of your time. And yes, be greedy with your hours. If only to then give those hours away as the most precious gifts you have to offer to yourself, your family, and your friends. And yes, to my Little Ones.” —From The Legacy Letters—“The Everything and Nothing of Money. Carew Papritz

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

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. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife. Carew Papritz

I promise to dream with you both great dreams and small dreams. To ask your counsel in times of uncertainty. To honor your silence when you seek to be alone. To be ever wondrous at your curiosities and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions .. . Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

Who will you be, my Little Ones? Will you dance for the fires of your youth and run at midnight to water’s edge, diving into summer’s heat? Will you ride a wild mare to any thought or dream or love of your making? Will you seek the artistry of your own infatuations and explore .. . Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable. Carew Papritz

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

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

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

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

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

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. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness .. . Carew Papritz

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

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. Carew Papritz

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup. Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals — or just good ideas. And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink… how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong of your tiny breaths as you fell asleep .. . Carew Papritz

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

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. Carew Papritz

It's a fool who thinks that having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fishheads I’ve ever heard. You have a responsibility, not only to a person but also to a spirit because that’s what a child is. A pissing, crying, yawning, giggling, laughing package of spirit that is looking for you to take the lead. It’s a heck of a responsibility to look after a spirit. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

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

Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy. Carew Papritz

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

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

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. Besides, to be wise and eighteen is as possible as catching lightning in a bottle… Carew Papritz

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

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. Carew Papritz

Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity–civilization’s backbone–that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized. And made of paper and ink, and thus they come from the earth. Their physicality is what makes them immensely human. And they contain the flesh-and-bone thoughts of one person capturing one blink of time, now made immortal in the bound pages carried by your own hands and touched by your own eyes. How can such fragile and thin paper and spidery veins of ink be our most precious treasure, binding together the entire hope and legacy and language of a civilization–of our existence. We touch the book and turn the page, and thus we are bound to our destiny. Carew Papritz

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 .. . Carew Papritz

MUSIC. Tunneling right down into your CORE and SOULTIME. Hep, sloppy, SEXY and cerebral. Chancy and hip-swinging like ELVIS and your first teenage KISS. Carew Papritz

There are hard days to live. And sometimes they will be just a few, and sometimes they will seem endless. And eventually you'll come to understand that we've all been there before - or more than likely are going there now. And maybe that idea will make it easier for you, and maybe it won't. But there will still be hard days to live, and you will still have to find your way through them. Carew Papritz

It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz