Quotes by Carew Papritz

Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best.

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.

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. Its hard work to be wisely alive.

Dream young. Dont 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 suns explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers.

But more importantly in my book of life, its what you cant buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.

If you don’t know how to grow old, don’t start learning how to grow old.

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. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man.

Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

Marriage is love put to its ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.

Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.

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.

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

HungerYou are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.

Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.

Living isnt always red bows and birthday balloons.

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.

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 prayers, remembering what was good in the world and why I was brought here to remember.

I want to remember...Smelling your newness upon this earth. The baby-Jesus smell as Grandma used to put it. Pure. Unsullied. Like the imagined smell in the twirling air of eiderdown feathers spin-floating around the yard on a new spring day.

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.