Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.'… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to… — 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
“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 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… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“And just as it is common to hear how, when one is in love, anything one sees reminds one of that love—our… — 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)
