We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed. — 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
Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me… — 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
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
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
Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do… — 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
“You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I think that mass communications as well as mass travel have made the whole world available to us in ways that they… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional… — 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
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and… — 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
“...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
So travel for me is an act of discovery and of responsibility as well a grand adventure and a constant liberation. — 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
For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, 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
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
For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable… — 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)
