Awake Quote by Pico Iyer Download Open image “The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.” — Pico Iyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awake Beauty Snaps
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
As I can testify, living in a foreign country takes you way out of your comfort zone. It's the little things, like ordering food… — Eniola Aluko Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn when you go overseas is how much a lot of the countries overseas really just like to enjoy… — Chris Paul Copy Share Image
Traveling and being in foreign cultures has always been really stimulating for me, partly because, when I'm living abroad, everything is new and like… — Joshua Marston Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
Whenever you go to different countries, you learn new things and gather experience. — Jasprit Bumrah Copy Share Image
Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way,… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
“We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home… — David McCullough 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
“I am awake. I know what you took. I am coming for you. Vengeance is mine.” — Robin Burks Copy Share Image
Reagan was sitting up at Cath's desk when Cath woke up. "Are you awake?" "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Are you awake?” “Have you been watching me sleep?” “Yes, Bella. Are you awake?” “No.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the Messiah?" "No," answered Buddha. "Then are you a healer?" "No," Buddha replied. "Then are you… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ponder was… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I'd just like to see athletes awake. And aware. There's so much going on and so much to know... We stay in our little… — Hannah Teter Copy Share Image
As your awareness of the riches available to you in your everyday life grows, you are on the way to becoming the laughing Buddha.… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“Think of it this way, Mara. We don’t have the power to make the sun rise, but we can choose to be awake when… — Sharon Garlough Brown 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)
