"As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where……" — Pico Iyer
"As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love."
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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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More Alive Quotes
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There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the…
— David Attenborough
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
— Paul Auster
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
— Richard Bach
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
— Michele Bachmann
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
— James A. Baldwin
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
— Ansel Adams
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My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful…
— Travis Barker
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
— Roseanne Barr
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The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I…
— Roseanne Barr
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