Nice Quotes

Life is not about the amount of breaths you take,
It's about the moments that take your breath away.

Charles Lindberg on Parachute Jumping
I watched him strap on his harness and helmet, climb into the cockpit and minuets later, a black dot falls off the wing two thousand feet above our field. At almost the same instant, a white streak behind him flowered out into the delicate wavering muslin of a parachute - a few gossamer yards grasping onto air and suspending below them, with invisible threads, a human life, and man who by stitches, cloth and cord, had made himself a god of the sky for those immortal moments.

A day or two later, when I decided that I too must pass through the experience of a parachute jump, life rose to a higher level, to a sort of exhilarated calmness. The thought of crawling out onto the struts and wires hundreds of feet above the earth, and then giving up even that tenuous hold of safety and of substance, left me a feeling of anticipation mixed with the dread, of confidence restrained by caution, of courage salted through with fear. How tightly should one hold onto life? How loosely give it rein? What gain was there for such a risk? I would have to pay in money for hurling my body into space. There would be no crowd to watch and applaud my landing. Nor was there any scientific objective to be gained. No, there was deeper reason for wanting to jump, a desire I could not explain. It was that quality that led me to aviation in the first place - it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of man - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane, where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same instant.

-- Charles A. Lindberg

Dance with the Wind
Feel the wind in your face. Feel it carry you on your ride. This is your pilgrimage to another world, another place, another dimension. Realize you're sharing the vastness of space with the air. The air is a friend. It welcomes you to it's world.

Enjoy the sights, enjoy the show. View the world through a whole new perspective. See the world as it really is.

Feel fortunate. You're experiencing the thrill of flight, the freedom of movement, a dance with the wind.

Relish the isolation, the privacy, the moments of self. Enjoy the peace that comes with separation and silence.

Bond with the wind, the birds, and the clouds. Know that there are others with you, and that you all know something the rest of the world does not.

Have faith in the friend on your back. Be comforted that it is there for you. Know that you will tell the world of your brief dance with the wind, the clouds, and the Earth.

Take the adventure for all it's worth. Learn what the experience has to teach you. Realize all your problems are in a different world, and cannot reach you where you are.

You are free. If only for a few minutes, you don't have any problems. You don't have any concerns, worries, distractions or expectations.
You are free.
You are finally free!