Rolf Potts Quotes

• 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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  Journey, Thinking, Get Better

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• For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead — out of our insane duty to fear, fashion, and monthly payments on things we don't really need — we quarantine our travels to short, frenzied bursts.

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  Dream, Fashion, Land

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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

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  Interesting, Doubt, Walks

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• Travel compels you to discover your spiritual side by elimination: Without all the rituals, routines and possessions that give your life meaning at home, you're forced to look for meaning within yourself Indeed, if travel is a process that helps you 'find yourself', it's because it leaves you with nothing to hide behind - it yanks you out from the realm of rehearsed responses and dull comforts, and forces you into the present. Here, in the fleeting moment, you are left to improvise, to come to terms with your raw, true self.

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  Spiritual, Home, Self

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

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  Wealth, Rich, Form

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

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  Way, Instinct, Plans

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.125, Ballantine Books

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• 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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  Inspirational, Travel, Long

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• 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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  Falling In Love, Quality, Vivid

  Rolf Potts (2003). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-term World Travel”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• 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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  Fate, Waiting, Circumstances

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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

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  Looks, Maps, Possibility

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.17, Ballantine Books

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• Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility. From here, the reality of vagabonding comes into sharper focus as you adjust your worldview and begin to embrace the exhilarating uncertainty that true travel promises.

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  Reality, Years, Focus

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• 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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  Insanity, World, Rich

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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

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  Correr, Simple, Largo

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.36, Ballantine Books

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• 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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  Life, Knowing, Goal

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.36, Ballantine Books

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• Cuanto más asociamos la experiencia con el valor en efectivo, más pensamos que el dinero es lo que necesitamos para vivir. Y cuanto más asociamos el dinero con la vida, más nos convencemos de que somos demasiado pobres para comprar nuestra libertad.

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  Thinking, Needs, Cash

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• El valor de tus viajes no depende de cuántos sellos tengas en el pasaporte cuando vuelvas a casa, y la experiencia lenta y matizada de un solo país siempre es mejor que la experiencia apresurada y superficial de cuarenta países.

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  País, Viajes, Inicio

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• 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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  Moving, Eye, Simple

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• 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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  Home, Adventure, Waiting

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.184, Ballantine Books

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• 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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  Sacrifice, Mass Culture, Simplicity

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• De este modo, acabamos pasando (como decía Thoreau) "la mejor parte de la vida ganando dinero para disfrutar de una libertad cuestionable durante la parte menos valiosa de ella". Nos encantaría dejarlo todo y explorar el mundo exterior, nos decimos, pero nunca parece el momento adecuado. Así que, ante una cantidad ilimitada de opciones, no tomamos ninguna. Al instalarnos en nuestras vidas, nos obsesionamos tanto con aferrarnos a nuestras certezas domésticas que olvidamos por qué las deseábamos en primer lugar.

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  Order, Choices, Liberty

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• El vagabundeo es una actitud, un interés amistoso por las personas, los lugares y las cosas que hace de una persona un explorador en el sentido más auténtico y vívido de la palabra.

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  Attitude, People, Friendly

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• 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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  Knowing, Choices, Facts

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.158, Ballantine Books

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• Viajar no es sólo dedicar una parte de la vida a viajar, sino redescubrir el concepto de tiempo.

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  Portions, Concept Of Time, Concepts

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.74, Ballantine Books

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• Contrary to popular stereotypes, seeking simplicity doesn't require that you become a monk, a subsistence forager, or a wild-eyed revolutionary. Nor does it mean that you must unconditionally avoid the role of consumer. Rather, simplicity merely requires a bit of personal sacrifice: an adjustment of your habits and routines within consumer society itself.

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  Mean, Sacrifice, Simplicity

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• Long-term travel isn’t about being a college student; it’s about being a student of daily life. Long-term travel isn’t an act of rebellion against society; it’s an act of common sense within society. 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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  College, Long, Common Sense

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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