In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow. And in an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Cesare Pavese
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read–unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
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E. Nesbit
You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.
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Debasish Mridha
A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
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Alain De Botton
More Quotes By Pico Iyer
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge,...
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life, " Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, "is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them...
... a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.
Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
