43 Quotes by Rolf Potts

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

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

Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life – six weeks, four months, two years – to travel the world on your own terms.

And let me tell you something. That first morning, when you are in your country of choice, away from all of the conventions of atypical, everyday lifestyle, looking around at your totally new surroundings, hearing strange languages, smelling strange, new smells, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. You’ll feel like the luckiest person in the world.

And we’ll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

Vagabonding is about looking for adventure in normal life, and normal life within adventure. 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.

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

Pro and con lists – one of my previous favorites – are just as bad. If it’s important to you, and you want to do it eventually, just do it, and correct course along the way. Fortune favors the bold.

After all, vagabonding involves sacrifices, and its particular sacrifices are not for everyone.