Home: Nowhere and Everywhere
Where do we find home? In a certain place? In a certain person? Or perhaps a moment in our lives? Home is a place we always seek but also we have all the time. It is the warmth we have inside of us, of our hearts that keep us going. Home is nowhere and everywhere.
Here are some collections of quotes about home:
“A man travels theworld over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
– George A. Moore
“Laughter is what makes a home warm, and what makes a work place human.”
– Catherine Pulsifer
“If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.”
– Malala Yousafzai
“Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.”
– Pierce Brown
“A house is made with walls and beams. A home is made with love and dreams.”
– Unknown
“No matter where you are financially, quality time is always available and with just a bit of love and creativity you can easily create a home.”
– Kendell Fox
“Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore.”
– Robin Hobb
“Your home is a physical and perhaps emotional comfort zone where you can heal and recover enough to address all your work problems the next morning.”
– Zak Khan
“A house is made of brick and mortar, but home is made by the people who live there.”
– M. K. Soni
“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
– Margaret Fuller
“When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”
– Thorton Wilder
“I believe that if we are to create peace in the world, we must first create peace in the home.”
– Richard O’Keef
“Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.”
– Helen Rowland
“Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
“I want my home to be that kind of place–a place of sustenance, a place of invitation, a place of welcome.”
– Mary DeMuth
“They created a home where I felt safe. I could make mistakes. Failure wasn’t punished.”
– Sarah Williams
“Consciously leave all those behind, walk into your home in a manner that says you are truly happy to be home for the ones you love, who have missed you all day, and have so longed to have you back.”
– Grace Essen
“You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.”
– Henning Mankell
“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”
– Le Corbusier
“I believe wherever dreams dwell, the heart calls it home. So may you untangle yourself from the twist of melancholy and ley your thoughts carry you back to the birthplace of your truth.”
– Dodinsky
“Every person is different, every home is different, every item is different, and we all have to decide how best to approach the clutter in our lives and homes based on our own values, sentiments, circumstances, and priorities.”
– Taylor Haskins
“No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home.”
– Laura Marney
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, gratitude is always possible, and feeling good starts at home.”
– Emma Wright
Happy will that house be in which the relationships are formed from character.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.”
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.”
– Vernon Baker
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”
– Robert Frost
“Home sweet home. This is the place to find happiness. If one doesn’t find it here, one doesn’t find it anywhere.”
– M. K. Soni
“I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to.”
– Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
“The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere.”
– Albania Proverb
“No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.”
– Joseph Brodsky
“The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.”
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell
“Home’s where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy
“At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
― Warsan Shire
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
“Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― Maya Angelou, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It’s heavy, that lightness. It’s crushing, that emptiness.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Tent
“Home is everything you can walk to.”
― Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
