Alastair Humphreys Quotes

#1. I want a thousand guitars ...

Bruce Springsteen

#2. Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Dean Koontz

#3. Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

Alastair Humphreys

#4. In broad strokes, punk happened after arena rock like Jimmy Carter happened after Watergate: there was enough revulsion to momentarily contemplate an alternative, but then the underlying conservative dynamic reasserted itself.

Eric Weisbard

#5. My sorrow, when she's here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be.

Robert Frost

#6. Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

Alastair Humphreys

#7. There is most certainly a good time to run, just as there is a bad time. When the nation has more to gain by your getting away and living than by your standing proud and dying, then you run.

Jonathan Renshaw

#8. None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

Matthew Henry

#9. You do not need to fly to the other side of the planet to find wilderness and beauty.

Alastair Humphreys

#10. But the absolute worst was when people asked if I was okay. Because then I had to admit that it was real, it happened, and we weren't together anymore.

Susane Colasanti

#11. Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.

David Levithan

#12. Adventure is just about doing something you've never done - doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.

Alastair Humphreys

#13. The real question is why you still believe in that invisible god when a true one stands before you?

Ben Willoughby

#14. Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

Frank Bruno

#15. See the opportunities for adventures, not the constraints that get in the way.

Alastair Humphreys

#16. Put your financial life on autopilot as a form of 'forced' saving.

Suze Orman

#17. After several months in our trio relationship, my husband and I started telling friends about our girlfriend... No one seemed to mind the concept of an occasional three-way fling with a stranger, but the concept of dating a third person was a bit much for polite company.

Victoria Vantoch

#18. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.

Alastair Humphreys

#19. There are a million ways
to kill someone
that leaves them
able to walk away.

Christina Hart

#20. [God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life.

Billy Graham