Carew Papritz Quotes

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Time. Either you're for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“And I don't care what age you are, kissing in the rain is the best.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“There are more things I don't even know by HALF than I do know by WHOLE.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“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, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift