Carew Papritz Quotes

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

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 . . .

Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best. If you build roads, then build them Roman - make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them to the state fair to win another blue ribbon for best ditches . . .

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.

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

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.