This Road I Ride Quotes

“We can do things that are greater than ourselves. If you believe nothing exists beyond a certain boundary, then you will never test the veracity of that belief and you will never discover new possibilities....Maybe there are truly extraordinary people out there, but I'm not one of them. The most extraordinary acts are accomplished by ordinary people doing something a little extra and stepping ouiside their personal comfort zone....I often wonder how much human potential lies unrealized and untapped, how much we are limited by our own fears as well as by social, cultural, religious, and self-imposed limitations. If we can break through those, how far might we go as individuals, as a species?”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself

“Bob Marley reportedly said, “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself

“Being the outsider in other people’s worlds makes me realize what an insignificant cog I am in this larger machine called humanity. The more you travel, the smaller the world becomes, while at the same time you and the things you thought were important shrink, too.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself

“If you really want to experience the world, get on a bicycle.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself

“On a bicycle, you are inside the movie, an essential part of it. Completely reliant upon your environment, you observe and absorb every sensation around you. You feel every change in terrain, the texture of the road, the direction of the wind, every ascent and descent, the constantly shifting weather.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself

“We want to feel safe, secure against every eventuality, so we construct worlds of illusion into which we bury our heads. But then something completely random, something for which we are totally unprepared, will be thrown into the mix, and we suddenly realise that, for all its laws, for all its order, the universe is full of chaos and all of our plans are useless. This never hit home harder for me than the day when Hendri died. It was a painful reminder that the only sure thing in life is that nothing lasts, including life itself. In all of our many uncertainties, that is the one irrevocable certainty.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“You might not be free from your environment’s demands, but you are free to choose your response to them.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“start to wonder, if the mind can create any reality it chooses, then what is truly real? Maybe our bodies are just machines and life is a game we are all hooked into. Maybe reality”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“The concept of public toilets has not yet caught on in most of India. Morning and evening, villagers simply squat along the main road with a bucket of water to do their business.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savour the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“Freedom to do what you want is a heavy burden to carry and a very lonely road to walk,”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“I think solitude is less a conscious choice than an inevitable side-effect of certain life choices,”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“amount of road kill spotted per day is a good indicator of what to expect from a country’s drivers.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“Family do not have to be blood relatives. They are the people who support you through good times and bad, the people who know all your secrets, celebrate your highs and stick around through the lows.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: My incredible journey from novice to fastest woman to cycle the globe

“We like to think we have some semblance of control over our lives or that some greater power has control over them. That we can make sense of whatever happens to us. That there is some greater purpose to it all, a reason for all the suffering and pain, something to justify the imbalances we see every day in the world around us. We want to feel safe, secure against every eventuality, so we construct worlds of illusion into which we bury our heads like the proverbial ostrich.

But then something totally random, something for which we are totally unprepared, is thrown into the mix, and we suddenly realize that for all its laws, for all its order, the universe is full of chaos, and all our carefully laid plans are useless.”
― Juliana Buhring, This Road I Ride: Sometimes It Takes Losing Everything to Find Yourself