Steven Callahan Quotes

• Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

  Steven Callahan

  Dream, Ideas, Giving

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

  Steven Callahan

  Maturity, Sea, Growth

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.

  Steven Callahan

  Trials, Life Is, This Life

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.

  Steven Callahan

  Goal, Challenges, Risk

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• There is a magnificent intensity in life that comes when we are not in control but are only reacting, living, surviving. I am not a religious man per se...but for me, to go to sea is to get a glimpse of the face of God. At sea I am reminded of my insignificance-of all men's insignificance. It is a wonderful feeling to be so humbled.

  Steven Callahan

  Religious, Men, Sea

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• My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

  Steven Callahan

  Pain, Loneliness, Important

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

  Steven Callahan

  Views, Heaven, Hell

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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