Robyn Davidson Quotes

I don't really relate to myself as The Girl in the Magazine. Which is dangerous for me, too, sometimes, because I don't think all the time, 'Well, look to see if people are following me home.' Sometimes I'm a little bit more free than maybe I should be.

Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.

Every day, I'm journaling and making sure things I do wrong I change or try to fix and make better and things I do right I continue to do those more often.

Your freedom is a supreme value. Nothing is higher than that. But your freedom is possible only if you are not encaged in your habits, unconscious patterns of living. Change your gestalt from unconsciousness to consciousness.

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.

In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. "I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there."

When you know who you are you are free.

Don't ask for security, ask for adventure

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

We are really competing against ourselves, we have no control over how other people perform.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.

I just have to be myself, and not worry about everyone looking at me and watching.

Every single day I wake up and commit to myself to becoming a better player.