"Travel is not really about leaving our homes,……" — Pico Iyer
"Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits."
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer has 100 quotes on this site.
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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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For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of…
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More Habit Quotes
This quote is filed under Habit Quotes,
one of 2,768 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the…
— Aristotle
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also…
— David Attenborough
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this…
— Chinua Achebe
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Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
— Margaret Atwood
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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