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Steven Callahan, born in 1952, is a renowned sailor and author. His works mainly revolve around sailing adventures and survival skills, which have won the favor of readers.

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All Sea Alive Avoiding Capture Challenges Desperation Dream Essentials Faces Feelings

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

Giving Ideas Reason Dream Purpose Imagination Plans Give Me Follow Your Dreams Ideas And Dreams

Book:Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Source: Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

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

Life Is Trials This Life Capture Tribulation Trials And Tribulations

Book:Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

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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.”

Grows Goal Challenges Walks Alive Risk Holes Avoiding Wire

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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.”

Kind Important Moments Pain Values Given Wealth Loneliness Strange Hunger Thirst Desperation Plight

Book:Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

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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.”

Men Feelings Faces Religious Wonderful Sea Intensity Magnificent Glimpse Surviving Reacting Insignificance

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“A view of heaven from a seat in hell.”

Heaven Views Hell Seats

Book:Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

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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.”

Mind Humans Spirit Growth Sea Essentials Remains Wave Woods Maturity Wilderness Human Spirit

Book:Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

Source: Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

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Born: 1952
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