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

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Source : Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.184, Ballantine Books

#Home Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.”
“The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.”
“It's not just that humiliating people, of any age, is a nasty and disrespectful way of treating them. It's that humiliation, like other forms of punishment, is counterproducti ve. 'Doing to' strategies -- as opposed to those that might be described as 'working with' -- can never achieve any result beyond temporary compliance, and it does so at a disturbing cost.”
“Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.”
“The job of the president of the United States is not to love his wife; it's to manage a wide range of complicated issues.”
“The plain truth is we are going to die. Here I am, a teeny spec surrounded by boundless space and time, arguing with the whole of creation, shaking my fist, sputtering, growing even eloquent at times, and then-poof! I am gone. Swept off once and for all. I think that is very, very funny.”
“Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.”
“T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.”

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