As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump doesn't radiate many of the qualities I respect. But what do I know? I've never met Trump. I know he's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama has made new opportunities for women that they never had in Tibet, introduced science into the monks' curriculum and had… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me,… — 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 love the fact that we can't explain coincidences. I think it's like sometimes you walk into a crowded room and you'll… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Literally, when you wake up at 9 o'clock in the morning in Havana you don't know where you'll be at noon. But… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Yes, we know more than ever before, and it's a wonder that we get to inhabit a world full of driverless cars… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody who travels knows that you're not really doing so in order to move around - you're traveling in order to be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will always be, as people feel scared of the Other… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think Dalai Lama is always careful about stressing that people be led into the practice by somebody who knows what's going… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Living here in California, I think one of the scariest things about California is the fact that it is rewriting its script… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In terms of technology and science, tomorrow does know more than yesterday; but when it comes to emotions, living with uncertainty, terror,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way… — 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
![“It's impressive that a man [Dalai Lama], on the day after his Nobel Prize was announced, in October, 1989, said to me, "I really wonder if my efforts are enough?" Most of us, if we just won the Nobel Prize, would think this is vindication, or at last there's a chance for Tibet. He's the rare…” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b68/pico-iyer-1252_chance_it-s-impressive-that-a-man-dalai-lama-on_1766880.jpg)
![“[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)
