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Carew Papritz inspires readers to find joy, curiosity, and purpose in everyday life. Through his reflections on human experience, exploration, and the pursuit of happiness, Papritz encourages living fully in the present while embracing challenges as opportunities. His works highlight the importance of connection, imagination, and self-discovery, motivating others to seek personal growth and fulfillment. Papritz's writing reminds readers that life is a journey to be savored, fostering resilience, wonder, and the courage to define success on their own terms.
"Make doing your best a habit, and you'll never know not doing your best."
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"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 . . ."
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"Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice."
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"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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 . . ."
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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"You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Starting the DayThe Legacy Letters By Carew PapritzSometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil-made cough syrup. Because somehow along the way we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals-or just good ideas. And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice."