Inspirational Quotes by Pico Iyer

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

— Pico Iyer

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

— Pico Iyer

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time,

— Pico Iyer

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

— Pico Iyer

In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.

— Pico Iyer

Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.

— Pico Iyer

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

— Pico Iyer

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

— Pico Iyer

“You go into the dark to get away from what you know, and if you go far enough, you realize, suddenly, that…

— Pico Iyer

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be…

— Pico Iyer

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

— Pico Iyer

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

— Pico Iyer

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

— Pico Iyer

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we…

— Pico Iyer

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

— Pico Iyer