"To be free one needs constant and unrelenting……" — Robyn Davidson
"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."
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Robyn Davidson
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16 Quotes by Robyn Davidson
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The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be,…
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I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.
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By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin…
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The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but…
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And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere.…
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Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes
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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…
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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…
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Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end:…
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That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it…
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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,…
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