“ 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
“ 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… 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 Se… 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… 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,… Carew Papritz
“ Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime. 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. Besides, to be wise and eighteen is as possible as catching lightning in a bot… Carew Papritz
“ I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink… how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong of… 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 pr… Carew Papritz
“ You might want more time in your life to attempt the things you like to do, and not just perform the things you have to do. Carew Papritz
“ While all the universe and my family are still sleeping, I will walk among the red and blue twinkle-lights of the living room, to sit and gaze upon the pretty white angel atop the tree and say silent… Carew Papritz
“ Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something. Carew Papritz
“ No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy.… 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
“ Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious. 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
“ 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 an… Carew Papritz
“ 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. Carew Papritz
“ 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. Carew Papritz
