Pico Iyer Quotes

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 11, 1957

Topics

HealthDoctorMental HealthExercise

Music and fashion combined make such a lethal weapon in my opinion.

Jeremy Scott

MusicOpinionFashionWeaponLethal

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.

Matt Lanter

FoodTogetherMeFastFast FoodTry

I was a young boy when I met the Surrealists and the Dadaists. I admired them, and that is what they taught me: to admire. Admiration is very important. People who are unable to admire others lose an important part of their soul. My soul developed from a very early age through encounters with admired people.

Stephane Hessel

AgeSoulPeopleMeLoseEarly

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

Sofia Coppola

GreatSomeoneMomentsYouBackGo

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.

Lucy Larcom

BeautyEyesLightBabyDieNever

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

Josh McDowell

MeetingsRememberYouMeetingSaid

The fate of the Celt in the British Empire bids fair to resemble that of the Greeks among the Romans.

Joseph Jacobs

FateFairEmpireBritishGreeks

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Jordan Peterson

LifeYouIgnorantWeakEverything

I don't want to sound arrogant or cocky, but taking a fight on short notice against 'Cowboy,' you have to be mentally strong.

Donald Cerrone

FightStrongShortYouWantCocky

I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.

Allison Williams

ClothesBreezeKeepSomethingWould

Diplomacy can and will matter; little is inevitable in international relations.

Richard N. Haass

InevitableWillMatterDiplomacy

You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.

Nick Woodman

WorkYouPassionateSuccessfulJust

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