Pico Iyer Quotes

I think of L.A. as my home now, in large part because I became the entity that I am in L.A. I always say to people that my coming-of-age happened in L.A., the unraveling of the person I was pretending to be for a long time, and then finding of the person I feel like I now am.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

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

We all need a firm sense of identity.

He traveled in order to come home.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up.

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

I call Boston home because it's where I started coming into my own.

I live in the present and in the future. Not in the past.

Medellin gave me so much. It gave me back who I am: the person I am, the human being I am.

I always love going home anyway; it's where my roots are. I always like to go back. It's a good reminder of where I started and the journey that I still have to go on to get where I want to be.

If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.