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Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking risks and seeking adventure in life, rather than living in fear or complacency.
Charles Lindbergh's quote challenges the notion of a risk-averse life by questioning the value of living without adventure. It suggests that daring to seek out new experiences and challenges is essential to a fulfilling life, and criticizes those who discourage such pursuits, inviting reflection on what it truly means to live bravely and passionately.
In practice
You could use this quote when encouraging friends to take a leap of faith in their careers.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced sucess with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.
We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.
We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.
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