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.
You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.
Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.
Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
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