The Legacy Letters Quotes

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

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

~ 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.

~ 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

Teach them what you love to do in life. It really doesn't matter what it is. It never does. Just show them how important a passion is . . .

~ Carew Papritz

So, if the truest currency of life is time, then how do you get more time? Because if more is merrier, than having more time should make us more happier. Right? Therefore, all we have to ask ourselves is can we buy more time? . . .

~ 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

Kids are kids and not little adults. They're watching and listening to you all the time. They're figuring out the game plan but still don't know all the rules. Talk straight to them and they'll respect you for it.

~ 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