Love Quote by Charles Kuralt

Kuralt’s line smuggles a radical permission slip inside a homespun tone. “Leap” is the tell: he isn’t endorsing careful optimization or résumé chess; he’s blessing momentum, the kind that only makes sense when you’re young enough that time feels elastic. Coming from a journalist best known for lingering with ordinary Americans, the advice carries a distinctly anti-credentialist bias. It sides with lived experience over strategic self-management, a quiet rebuke to the idea that a life should be planned like a portfolio.

The subtext is pragmatic, not purely romantic. “Something you know you love” isn’t a demand for perfect self-knowledge; it’s a call to trust the clearest signal you have right now. Kuralt acknowledges the instability of desire without shaming it: “You might change your mind later” deflates the cultural panic around getting it “right” on the first try. The second sentence turns what modern adulthood often treats as a liability (indecision, shifting identity) into an earned right: “the privilege of youth.” Privilege here isn’t entitlement; it’s a window when the costs of course correction are lower, when mistakes can be metabolized into story rather than regret.

Context matters: Kuralt worked in an era when many Americans still imagined a linear path, one job turning into a life. He offers a counter-narrative from inside that world: choose passion early, and if it morphs, let it. The rhetoric is gentle, but the consequence is disruptive: it redefines changing your mind as growth, not failure.