Pico IyerSerendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice ✨ Pico Iyer (2010). Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, p.34, Vintage352Hope
Pico IyerI suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life353Life
Pico IyerSo it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.375Humanity
Pico IyerComedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.376Humor
Pico IyerWriting should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalie… ▶345Love
Pico IyerFinding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.335HopeTime
Pico IyerWriting is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.368Hope
Pico IyerMy Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. ✨ … ▶347ReadingTime
Pico IyerAnd 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 o… ▶314Thought
Pico IyerIn our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feast… ▶281ReadingThought
Pico IyerHome is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.369Humanity
Pico IyerI take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances, as well as one of the most rewarding t… ▶314LifeThought
Pico IyerNone of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder… ▶303HopeLifeLove
Pico IyerWe travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accom… ▶3710LoveReadingTime
Pico IyerIn an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an… ▶348Thought
Pico IyerOne curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory. ✨ Pico Iyer (2011). The Global Soul: Jet Lag, S… ▶3610Politics
Pico IyerThe open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.305Hope
Pico IyerFor if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever… ▶349LoveTruth
Pico IyerPerhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodi… ▶349Thought
Pico IyerWe travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.317Time
Pico IyerQuitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with something. It’s not a compl… ▶329Truth
Pico IyerEvery day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit? ✨ Want to be happy? Slow down. Interview with Guy… ▶253ThoughtTime
Pico IyerFor more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.275Politics
Pico IyerA person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.287Politics
Pico IyerDeath undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.232DeathHopeTime
Pico IyerWe travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.234Love
Pico IyerIn an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still. ✨ Pico Iyer (2014). The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere, p.66, Simon and Schuster224Love
Pico IyerA lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of … ▶279Reflection
Pico IyerBut it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.181Death
Pico IyerWhat more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness … ▶192DeathLoveReading
