Top 7 Quotes by Steven Callahan

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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