"Home is not just the place where you……" — Pico Iyer
"Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself."
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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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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of…
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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
— David Attenborough
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
— Margaret Atwood
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I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Art is born of humiliation.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where…
— Sai Baba
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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What…
— Richard Bach
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
— Gaston Bachelard
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The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when…
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as…
— Francis Bacon
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