Carew Papritz Quotes

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

To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man. - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz

~ Carew Papritz

Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime.

~ Carew Papritz

Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

~ Carew Papritz

Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.

~ Carew Papritz

Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away.

~ Carew Papritz

Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time.

~ 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

Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.

~ 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 . . .

~ 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

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

~ 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.

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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