Quotes by Rolf Potts

Rolf Potts

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

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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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Simplicity

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.

Dream

Fashion

Land

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

Get Better

Journey

Thinking

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

Doubt

Interesting

Walks

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.

Eye

Moving

Simple

In a way, simplifying your life for vagabonding is easier than it sounds. This is because travel by its very nature demands simplicity. If you don’t believe this, just go home and try stuffing everything you own into a backpack. This will never work, because no matter how meagerly you live at home, you can’t match the scaled-down minimalism that travel requires.

Believe

Home

Simplicity

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

Long

Reality

Travel

In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.” We’d love to drop all and explore the world outside, we tell ourselves, but the time never seems right. Thus, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. Settling into our lives, we get so obsessed with holding on to our domestic certainties that we forget why we desired them in the first place.

Choices

Liberty

Order

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Quotes by Rolf Potts

Rolf Potts

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.

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

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

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

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.

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