Steven Callahan quotes
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“Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.”
-- Steven CallahanSource : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.63, 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 CallahanSource : 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.”
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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 CallahanSource : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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.”
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“A view of heaven from a seat in hell.”
-- Steven CallahanSource : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.96, 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 CallahanSource : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“But dreams change. Fate has a way showing you paths you want more.”
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“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”
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“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
Source : Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”
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Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation
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Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.
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