Pico Iyer Quotes

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• Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
• We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
• In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have…
• Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself…
• My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as…
• Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
• Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen,…
• Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
• None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that…
• Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to…
• Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
• One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
• For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.
• Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.
• Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with…
• I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances,…
• Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.
• For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I…
• For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t…
• Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

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