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

- Robyn Davidson

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

- Robyn Davidson

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

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

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-c…

- Robyn Davidson

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

- Robyn Davidson

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

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 …

- 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 …

- Robyn Davidson