Carew S Quotes Quotes & Sayings

More than likely you'll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man's bucket. — 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

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

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

Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again. — Carew Papritz

Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage. — Carew Papritz

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. — Carew Papritz

A Good Man. Every night, like a question-and-answer prayer, my son and I recite ... What are you going to be? And he says ... An honest man. A fair man. A courageous man. And a good man. That's the most important thing, Papa. And my job is finally done. For the night. — 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

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious. — Carew Papritz

Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You'll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS. — 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

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

Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation. — Carew Papritz

No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN. — Carew Papritz

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. — 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

Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation. — 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

KIDS. They know a BRIBE when they see one. They want a PARENT, not a PAY-OFF. They don't care if you're Jack-King-Rodeo or Mister-You-Own-New-York. All they understand is time spent WITH YOU or WITHOUT YOU. It's that SIMPLE. — Carew Papritz

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive. — Carew Papritz

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

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. — Carew Papritz

Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes. — Carew Papritz

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives. — Carew Papritz

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. — Carew Papritz

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

So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS? — Carew Papritz

These Moments Cascade Upon One Another
Here at shepherd's dusk, in a valley without echo, I listen for you. With a frayed longing, I hear your shadow voice whispering within me from far away. I grasp at what is left of this husky sun lying golden upon the upper meadows of lodge pole and bear grass. I gather the last remnants of the evening's breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten. And I see that behind a cloak of clouds, dalliance suits the canting moon. Suddenly I do not wish to lose another moment, And I covet all pristine light. — Carew Papritz

Be the same person- with or without money. — Carew Papritz

Eat Ice Cream. Read Books. Be Happy. — Carew Papritz

I gather the last remnants of the evening's breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten. — 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

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

The Losing of Love ... Like discovering a shard of heaven's handwriting in the snowflake that has landed upon your hand, desperately wishing you could give such beauty to your best friend before it melts away. And what you are left with is an exquisite regret - the eloquent conspiracy of memory - of the moment lived and the moment wished for that never will arrive. — Carew Papritz

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