"And it’s only by going nowhere - by……" — Pico Iyer
"And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to me unbidden are far fresher and more imaginative than the ones I consciously seek out."
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer has 100 quotes on this site.
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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall…
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it…
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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is…
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and…
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's…
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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could…
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.
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I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
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I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just…
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The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most…
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
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Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard…
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The more conscious we become the more consciously we choose that which we set in motion to create.
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Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get…
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