I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think it's in human nature to want to have more, to compete with the other and, at some level, to be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more… — 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
I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at… — 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
I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,… — 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
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
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space… — 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)
