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

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.

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

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.

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

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