Steven Callahan Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Yet I knew that spiritual practice is impossible without great dedication, energy, and commitment.

Jack Kornfield

#3. Were you dropped on your head as a baby or did your mother just throw you against a wall ?

Christine Zolendz

#4. The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.

Keith Thibodeaux

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

Steven Callahan

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

Steven Callahan

#7. There's Socialism and Communism and Capitalism and there's Feminism and Hedonism, and there's Catholicism and Bipedalism and Consumerism, but I think Narcissism is the system that means the most to me.

Tony Hoagland

#8. 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

#9. London is my home ... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

Jude Law

#10. Today's business climate is not for me.

Berry Gordy

#11. Blind faith isn't always a good thing.

Heather Graham

#12. A view of heaven from a seat in hell.

Steven Callahan

#13. I type like I live: fast, with a lot of mistakes!

Anne Ullah

#14. I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.'

Lily Rabe

#15. 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

#16. To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Timothy Leary

#17. I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it

Warren Zevon

#18. I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line ...

Yukio Mishima

#19. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.

Steven Callahan