82 Quotes About 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance. Carew Papritz

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

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

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

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

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss–taunting, deep, and luscious. The sun. The heat. The thousand echoes of a timelessness before time, when every day seems longer than the next and no day seems likely to ever truly end. Summer. Carew Papritz

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

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

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

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

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

Be the same person- with or without money. Carew Papritz

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. Carew Papritz

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? Carew Papritz

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

In reality, Little Ones, there are two winters. One made for kids; the other for adults. The one made for adults is always too cold and always too long. The one made for kids is always perfect. A kid winter is an endless and wild snow carnival where all the rides are free. Carew Papritz

I wish I could wrap up the glitter star-green of this moment and hand it to you like an angel gift. Give you the heat lightning flying in jagged silence over the distant mountains. And the smell of September prairie grass and the even fainter scent of October pine now descending .. . Carew Papritz