“Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Sometimes I travel just to be overwhelmed – for it’s good every now and then to be overwhelmed.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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 . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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 . . .”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“It’s a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I’ve ever heard.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Be the same person- with or without money.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“No one OWES you a THING. So don’t EXPECT it. You’re on your OWN.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I can FEEL her next to me. This UNION. Of WARMTH. Of CARING. Of the INDESCRIBABLE. As if there were NO PARTING and NEVER could be.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Part of loving kids is laying down fencelines. They need to know immediately when they've crossed a line; otherwise the lesson doesn't get learned.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“What good is an “I love you” if said only when you have to?”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Dream young. Don't settle for old - for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming - run like a sun's explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Be the greatest of who you were meant to be. Life goes on ferociously-with or without you. It is your choice. Truly and magnificently your choice.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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."
- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Hunger
You are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Dream Bravely.
Find fearlessness inside of you. Dare, and fear will falter. Challenge, and fear will flee. This is the beginning of your dream-making.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going to.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“When do you become a man? 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.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift