Carew Papritz Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

Hate is a very strong, pure emotion to be wasted on people you don't care about.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

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 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

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