Top 100 The Legacy Letters Quotes
#1. I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.
- The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz
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#2. Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe."
The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz
"Things I didn't know.
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#3. The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point?
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#4. And I don't care what age you are, kissing in the rain is the best.
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#5. I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.
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#6. Don't spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren't stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Dream Bravely.
Find fearlessness inside of you. Dare, and fear will falter. Challenge, and fear will flee. This is the beginning of your dream-making.
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#9. Marriage is not the beginning of the journey, nor the end - it is the journey.
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#10. Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.
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#11. Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.
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#12. I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.
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#13. MUSIC. Tunneling right down into your CORE and SOULTIME. Hep, sloppy, SEXY and cerebral. Chancy and hip-swinging like ELVIS and your first teenage KISS.
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#14. As I see it, you GET married - but you MAKE a marriage.
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#15. Rain with no shoes is just as much fun as rain with big rubber galoshes.
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#16. How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning.
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#17. I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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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#20. Marriage is love put to it's ultimate test - the grindstone of life. Where the idealism of love meets the everydayness of marriage.
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#21. If you don't know how to grow old, don't start learning how to grow old.
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#22. 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 ...
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#23. Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.
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#24. Thanksgiving - fall's finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.
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#25. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. I remember once kissing you, your face lit by northern stars. Promising to grow old with you, and now so simply breaking the promise.
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#29. Don't have kids until you're ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren't like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.
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#30. Enjoy the RIDE NOW. You'll be SUCCESSFUL later, however YOU define SUCCESS.
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#31. 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.
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#32. It is you who must someday break through the protective polish of who you are, to become naked and powerful to who you can truly be.
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#33. 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.
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#34. You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.
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#35. 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.
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#36. The things you don't know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Sometimes the best way is to get out of your own way.
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#39. Get someone-anyone-to read books to you. Having books read to you at any age is the supremo ultimato of living.
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#40. 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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#41. 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.
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#42. Money - it can buy you a moment of glee but not a lifetime of happiness.
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#43. POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later. Do what you want to do, and with the people you love. Learn to appreciate time and make doing so a habit. And if you want to do nothing, then enjoy doing it well. Why do anything by half? Why live a life diluted? What's the use?
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#46. The trick to not growing old is to: Stay curious. Keep your teeth. Stay hopeful. Do everything gracefully, yet kick when you have to.
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#47. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.
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#48. Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.
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#53. Let my memories of you be like water on the moon. A beautiful impossibility - but allowing me to sleep and dream of infinite beginnings rather than Othello endings.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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 and revelations. And to be ever rejuvenated by your passions ...
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#56. It's a fool who thinks having a kid is a right, which is the biggest crock of fish heads I've ever heard.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. 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.
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#60. A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.
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#61. Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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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#64. As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.
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#65. So How Much of a THING or THINGS is Enough? And if you have EVERYTHING, have you achieved perfect HAPPINESS?
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#66. Rain with an umbrella while holding hands with your lover is damned sure nice.
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#67. All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.
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#68. Hunger
You are only here now, and then you are gone. So be hungry. Hunger toward beauty. Hunger toward love. Hunger towards the unimaginable and unthinkable.
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#69. 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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#70. It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going to.
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#71. With your Christmas-Day-will-never-arrive-soon enough salivations, you anticipate the moment when, like voracious cub lions, you'll rip open the wrapping paper and feast off your every delicious present.
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#72. Money. It fits around your neck like some permanent noose. always waiting for your next misstep.
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#73. Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots.
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#74. If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.
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#75. You haven't seen a thing until you've seen this man fight. My sword is sharp. My heart strong. My spirit ferocious - and I am going to live. Let the swords clash. Let the fight begin.
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#76. And Sometimes I Feel as if I'm Only a Doorman Awaiting the Arrival of her Royal Majesty.
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#77. 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 your tiny breaths as you fell asleep ...
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#78. Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.
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#79. Time. Either you're for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.
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#80. Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.
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#81. 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.
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#82. 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.
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#83. Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself.
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#84. 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. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both ...
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#85. There are hard days to live. You awake to a day when you feel you've done it all before, and you're going to do it again, so why do it at all.
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#86. 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 is can we buy more time? ...
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#87. So curious you must be. Like little calves poking their heads through the fence with big eyes and a headful of curiosity.
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#88. 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.
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#89. I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.
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#90. Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.
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#91. 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.
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#92. No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN.
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#93. Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away.
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#94. Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.
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#95. Living isn't always red bows and birthday balloons.
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#96. Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.
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#97. 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.
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#98. Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation.
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#99. 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.
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#100. Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.
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