bodr's submitted quotes
You see things and say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".
Vagabonding is about taking control of your circumstances instead of passively waiting for them to decide your fate.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. 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."
To see nothing anywhere but what you may reach it and pass it,
To conceive no time, however distant, but what you may reach it and pass it,
To look up or down no road but it stretches and waits for you,
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To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.
Purchasing a package vacation to find a simpler life is kind of like using a mirror to see what you look like when you aren`t looking into the mirror.
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.
Vagabonding is about using the prosperity and possibility of the information age to increase your personal options instead of your personal possessions.