We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.

- Pico Iyer

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by f…

- Pico Iyer

The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.

- Pico Iyer

Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself expands. In …

- Pico Iyer

Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.

- Pico Iyer

Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.

- Pico Iyer

In 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 th…

- Pico Iyer

For 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…

- Pico Iyer

Quitting, 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 wi…

- Pico Iyer