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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

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.

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

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.

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.