We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
Interpretation
Travel expands our understanding of the world beyond what is reported in the media.
In this quote, Pico Iyer emphasizes the importance of travel as a means of personal growth and enlightenment. He argues that the experiences gained while traveling can deepen our understanding and empathy for different cultures and perspectives, providing insights that the limitations of our daily news cannot offer. Through travel, we have the opportunity to truly see and feel the world, encouraging us to open our hearts and minds.
In practice
In a travel-related presentation, one might use this quote to illustrate the value of firsthand experiences.
Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with something. It’s not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one’s journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting-whether a job or a habit-means taking a turn so as to be sure you’re still moving in the direction of your dreams.
I think one reason, obviously, that I spend so much time in one place is that I've been lucky enough to travel a lot, and now there are other different, invisible trains that are more interesting to me.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
I'm no Buddhist monk, and I can't say I'm in love with renunciation in itself, or traveling an hour or more to print out an article I've written, or missing out on the N.B.A. Finals. But at some point, I decided that, for me at least, happiness arose out of all I didn't want or need, not all I did.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
As citizens, I'm asking you not to leave any child behind. I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave, so that every child knows that their future matters and their dreams are possible.
I don't think that everyone should become a mathematician, but I do believe that many students don't give mathematics a real chance.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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