I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
Interpretation
Taking risks is worthwhile when driven by a passion for living fully.
This quote reflects the idea that the risks we choose to take are often fueled by a deep appreciation for life itself. Charles Lindbergh suggests that the joy and fulfillment one experiences in life can justify the uncertainties and challenges that come with pursuing one's passions, highlighting a balance between courage and love for life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing dreams.
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.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.
It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual.
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