43 Quotes by Rolf Potts

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.