Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I like the way that American has become a kind of spiritual home even for people who have never seen it. American… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or things can… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama, these days, encourages Westerners not to take up Buddhism, partly because he feels that our roots are deep in other traditions,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
As soon as I began to talk to Dalai Lama, I realized that Chinese and Tibetans from his point of view are mostly the… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
![“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9fe/pico-iyer-1252_benefits_the-dalai-lama-told-me-some-years-ago-i_678.jpg)
