Pico Iyer Quotes

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

Pico Iyer

Quotes to Explore

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

Tamae Watanabe
- Fun
- Reason
- Marriage
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

W. Somerset Maugham
- Beautiful
- Unity
- Essence
Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

Dale Archer
- Mind
- Heart
- Sleep
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.

Dani Shapiro
- Mother
- Father
- Religious
I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

Taraji P. Henson
- Control
- Choices
- Negative
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

Federica Montseny
- Wish
- Same
- Old