"In an age of constant movement, nothing is……" — Pico Iyer

"In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still."

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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer has 100 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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 our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it…
Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is…
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and…
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…
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…
Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are…
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.

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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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