Robyn Davidson Quotes

• 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.

  Robyn Davidson

  Inspirational, Freedom, Struggle

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.220, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Robyn Davidson

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.254, A&C Black

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• 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

  Robyn Davidson

  Home, People, Kind

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• 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.

  Robyn Davidson

  Life, Wisdom, Hope

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• 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.

  Robyn Davidson

  Travel, Believe, Long

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• When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

  Robyn Davidson

  Be Prepared, Prepared, Linked

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.193, A&C Black

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

  Robyn Davidson

  Sinking Feeling, Feelings, Difficult

  Robyn Davidson (1992). “From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep terra-cotta brown and was the constituency of harness leather. The sun no longer penetrated it. I retained my hat.

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  Clothes, Skins, Naked

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.209, A&C Black

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

  Robyn Davidson

  Real, Eye, Would Be

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

  Robyn Davidson

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

  Robyn Davidson

  Travel, Decision, Firsts

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.254, A&C Black

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• Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

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  Want, Fame, Lost

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.235, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.

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  Camels, Ends, Form

  Robyn Davidson (1995). “Tracks”, Vintage

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• The 70s were a wonderful time to be young. I think most young people at that time were pushing the boundaries, asking all sorts of questions of society, of life and of themselves. They were very politicised. It was part of the air that we breathed.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Air, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I hate hats! Hats just give you really bad hair! I had a hat sometimes. Frankly, you get burnt so much anyway, it's beside the point. And when you're walking into the western sun, no hat in the world is going to save your face and neck from being sizzled.

  Robyn Davidson

  Hate, Hair, Giving

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

  Robyn Davidson

  Pain, Attachment, Duty

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• That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

  Robyn Davidson

  Home, Ideas, Voice

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• I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

  Robyn Davidson

  Travel, Funny Travel, I Can

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