101 Quotes by Robyn Davidson

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes

I believe when you’re stuck in one spot for too long it’s best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of manufacturing. We relax back into the moulds of habit. They are secure, they bind us and keep us contained at the expense of freedom. To break the moulds, to be heedless of the seductions of security is an impossible struggle, but one of the few that count. To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble.