Pico Iyer Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.

  Pico Iyer

  Travel, Home, Leaving

• ...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

  Pico Iyer

  Lying, Home, Ties

  Pico Iyer (2012). “The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Born, Happens

• Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Thinking, Creating

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any conversation, it helps to listen with an open mind, so you can be led somewhere unexpected. The more you leave assumptions at home, I've found, the better you can hear whatever it is that a destination is trying to say to you.

  Pico Iyer

  Motivational, Home, Mind

  "10 things every traveler should do" by Pico Iyer, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2009.

• I exult in the fact I can see everywhere with a flexible eye; the very notion of home is foreign to me, as the state of foreignness is the closest thing I know to home.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Eye, Facts

  Pico Iyer (2000). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

• From the beginning, I've stressed that home is something internal, invisible, portable, especially for those of us with roots in many physical places; we have to root ourselves in our passions, our values and our deepest friends. My home, I've always felt, lies in the songs and novels that I love, in the wife and mother that I'm never far away from, in the monastery to which I've been returning for 25 years.

  Pico Iyer

  Mother, Song, Lying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, "Where's your home?" I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

  Pico Iyer

  Song, Home, Thinking

  "Where is home?". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2013.

• For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Soul, Pieces

• I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Father, Home

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

• Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Movement, Privilege

• To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.

  Pico Iyer

  Moving, Home, Community

  Source: scottlondon.com

• For me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Light, Luxury

• I like the way that American has become a kind of spiritual home even for people who have never seen it. American dreams are strongest of all in the hearts of people who have only seen America in their dreams. I think it's refreshing and reviving to go around the world and see how America still occupies this special place.

  Pico Iyer

  Spiritual, Dream, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

• I do think it’s only by stopping movement that you can see where to go. And it’s only by stepping out of your life and the world that you can see what you most deeply care about… and find a home.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Thinking, Stopping

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Oct 19, 2013

• The reason I love travel is not just because it transports you in every sense, but because it confronts you with emotional and moral challenges that you would never have to confront at home. So I like going out in search of moral and emotional adventure which throws me back upon myself and forces me to reconsider my assumptions and the things I took for granted. It sends me back a different person.

  Pico Iyer

  Adventure, Home, Emotional

  Source: scottlondon.com

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