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121 " So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS? "
― Carew Papritz , The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
122 " Be the same person- with or without money. "
123 " 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. "
124 " 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? "
125 " What good is an “I love you” if said only when you have to? "
126 " 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. "
127 " 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. "
128 " 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 . . . "
129 " Time. Either you're for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. "
130 " All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE. "
131 " There are more things I don't even know by HALF than I do know by WHOLE. "
132 " The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to. "
133 " POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS. "
134 " 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. "
135 " 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. "
136 " Make doing your best a habit, and you’ll never know not doing your best. If you build roads, then build them Roman—make them last two thousand years. Dig ditches as if you were taking them to the state fair to win another blue ribbon for best ditches . . . "
137 " Walk with me now into the very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken. "
138 " 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. "
139 " Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation. "
140 " To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man." - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz "
― Carew Papritz