{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["be-happy","be-thankful","book","carew-papritz","carew-s","give-thanks","happiness","life","quote","quotes","to-live-by","thank-you","thankful","the-legacy-letters"],"id":819,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"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 . . .","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["book","learn","love-books","love-reading","by-carew-papritz","read","reading","the-legacy-letters"],"id":13825,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["book","carew-papritz","rain","rain","the-legacy-letters"],"id":14543,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["adults","carew-papritz","child","quotes","the-legacy-letters"],"id":16473,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["book","carew-papritz","inspirational","life","quote","quotes","to-live-by","sunrise","the-legacy-letters"],"id":17320,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"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 . . .","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["baby","baptized","bathing","legacy","memories","parenting","by-carew-papritz","the-legacy-letters"],"id":17518,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"Money-it can buy your kids anything, but it cannot teach them love, respect, and the true value of living life without things.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["carew-papritz","children","guidebook-to-life","kids","life","money","money-and-kids","money","parenting","the-legacy-letters"],"id":21316,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"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.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["bones","books","break","carew-papritz","heart","love","quotes","read","skin","soul-clothes","the-legacy-letters"],"id":24394,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["carew-papritz","stories","story","the-legacy-letters","travel","travel"],"id":33960,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"},{"text":"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.","author":"Carew Papritz","tags":["book","book-of-life","carew-papritz","life","quote","quotes","the-legacy-letters"],"id":35824,"author_id":"Carew+Papritz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":119,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}