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.
Weitere Zitate von Carew Papritz
Zum Autor"How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning."
"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live."
"Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things."
"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."
"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."
"Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . ."