"The important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love."
- Pico Iyer
Awareness
""You have to travel light to move fast. But to make a great journey you need a slow, steady pace with a heavy heart.""
- Pico Iyer
Balance
"A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation."
- Pico Iyer
Transformation
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves."
- Pico Iyer
Personal Growth
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy