Mike Carter > Quotes

“There's something about the joint witnessing of the world that gives the experience a sense of permanence.”
― Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike: A 5,000 Mile, Life-Changing Journey Round the Coast of Britain

“When the spirits are low. When the day appears dark. When work becomes monotonous. When hope hardly seems worth having. Just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.’ Arthur Conan Doyle”
― Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike: A Life-Changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain - The Word-of-Mouth Bestseller

“there is nothing like time spent in the company of a Quixotic lunatic to make you feel that everything will work out just fine.”
― Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike: A Life-Changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain - The Word-of-Mouth Bestseller

“10 miles inland, hunkering under a ceiling of low cloud, lay before me like a pool of mercury. In the seventeenth century, the Brahan Seer, a sort of Scottish”
― Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike: A Life-Changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain - The Word-of-Mouth Bestseller

“You can't rely on the attainment of goals or journeys, no matter how big or small, for your happiness, because the attainment of that goal will only bring you temporary gratification. If you want to be happy, then you must enjoy it all, at whatever point you're at, from the beginning to the end. Because ultimately happiness is the acceptance of the journey as it is now, not the promise of the other shore.”
― Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike: A 5,000 Mile, Life-Changing Journey Round the Coast of Britain

“world. Again, I thought back to my childhood, the constant moving, the endless hellos and goodbyes, my parents divorcing. My”
― Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike: A Life-Changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain - The Word-of-Mouth Bestseller

“maybe it was the loneliness of being on your own when you're surrounded by people, in the same way that you can sit alone on a mountain top and not feel remotely lonely, whereas find yourself in a middle of a city surrounded by people and you can feel totally isolated”
― Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike: A 5,000 Mile, Life-Changing Journey Round the Coast of Britain

“If there was ever a place that could convince an atheist of his folly, Lindisfarne was surely it.”
― Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike: A Life-Changing Journey All the Way Around the Coast of Britain - The Word-of-Mouth Bestseller