A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall… — 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
You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or… — 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
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
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
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
“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
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. — Pico Iyer Copy Share
