Rolf Potts Quotes

#1. The goal of preparation then is not knowing exactly where you'll go but being confident nonetheless that you'll get there.

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#2. vagabonding is simply a matter of making work serve your interests,

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#3. a petition campaign called Work to Live. The goal of this movement was to pass a law that would increase American vacation time to three weeks after one year on the job, and to four weeks after three years.

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#4. the Buddha whimsically pointed out that seeking happiness in one's material desires is as absurd as "suffering because a banana tree will not bear mangoes.

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#5. If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting.

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#6. Having an adventure is sometimes just a matter of going out and allowing things to happen in a strange and amazing new environment - not so much a physical challenge as a psychic one.

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#7. Time is the truest form of wealth. And the beauty is, we are all born equally rich in time.

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#8. The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.

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#9. Of all the adventures and challenges that wait on the vagabonding road, the most difficult can be the act of coming home.

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#10. Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.

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#11. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope;

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#12. You should view each new travel frustration - sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict - as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure.

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#13. We see as we are," said

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#14. Vagabonding is about refusing to exile travel to some other, seemingly more appropriate, time of your life. Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.

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#15. The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

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#16. They are spending plenty of time and money on the road, but they never spent enough of themselves to begin with. Thus, their experience of travel has a diminished sense of value.

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#17. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

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#18. What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

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#19. Zamunda represent everything that is kewl and real about vagabonding ... being the person that discovered Zamunda (for independent travelers) during the research of my book, Vagabonding, I am happy to see a well written guide done by the boyz and girl at BootsnAll

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#20. At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice doesn't garner much attention in the frenetic world of mass culture.

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#21. The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

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#22. To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

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#23. Sadly, the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" ("someday I'll do this, someday I'll do that") is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro

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#24. Seeing' as you travel is somewhat of a spiritual exercise: a process not of seeking interesting surroundings, but of being continually interested in whatever surrounds you.

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#25. There is still an overwhelming social compulsion-an insanity of consensus, if you will-to get rich from life rather than live richly, to "do well" in the world instead of living well.

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#26. I think your travels get better when you stop showcasing your journey to others and begin to live it, quietly and joyfully.

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#27. If you wander with open eyes and simple curiosity, you'll discover a much richer pleasure - the simple feeling of possibility that hums from every direction as you move from place to place.

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#28. The mind can be a crazy monkey that is always dying to escape from the moment.

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#29. Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

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#30. In reality long-term travel has nothing to do with demographics, age, ideology, income, and everything to do with personal outlook.

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#31. Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

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#32. Vagabonding is about not merely reallotting a portion of your life for travel but rediscovering the entire concept of time.

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#33. The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home
and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.

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#34. Travel, I was coming to realize, was a metaphor not only for the countless options life offers but also for the fact that choosing one option reduces you to the parameters of that choice. Thus, in knowing my possibilities, I also knew my limitations.

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#35. Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.

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#36. Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

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#37. Neither self nor wealth can be measured in terms of what you consume or own. Even

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#38. Those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.

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#39. Money, of course, is still needed to survive, but time is what you need to live. So, save what little money you possess to meet basic survival requirements, but spend your time lavishly in order to create the life values that make the fire worth the candle. Dig?

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