This Edition: return/home
Quoted in The Grove:
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
~Robert Frost
When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
~E W Howe
Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.
~John Green
EndQuote:
Everything is restless until it comes home.
~John Bate
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Prewritten Prompt: star
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
~Oliver Goldsmith
Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.
~Katrina Kenison
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
~George Moore
Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you’ve been waiting for.
~Byron Katie
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The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there.
~Ellie Rodriguez
And though home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit answered to, in strongest conjuration.
~Charles Dickens
Home is the nicest word there is.
~Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Home — a place where the small are great, and the great are small.
~Charles M Crowe
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.
~Vernon Baker
Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
~Author unknown
My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
~Michel de Montaigne
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Parents are like God because you wanna know they’re out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
~Chuck Palahniuk
Home is the definition of God.
~Emily Dickinson
God is at home, it’s we who have gone out for a walk.
~Meister Eckhart
For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.
~Isak Dinesen
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe — because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.
~Bertrand Russell
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For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
~Abraham Cowley
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
~Aleksandar Hemon
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.
~Robert Frost
Home is where the wi-fi connects automatically.
~Internet meme
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Posted From The Grove
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth, both financial affluence and emotional security.
~Suze Orman
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it …it’s just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. … A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
~Henrik Ibsen
Buying a home wouldn’t make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.
~Mark Zandi
~Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
~Pras Michel
Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms.
~William J Bennett
A home that was envisioned to withstand the storms of the world is found flooded from within.
~Gregory Cicio
A good home must be made, not bought.
~Joyce Maynard
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The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.
~Harold B Lee
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, whether it’s leaving home, whether it’s getting married, or whether it’s flying in space.
~Chris Hadfield
In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
~Ray Dalio
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
~Randy Castillo
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It occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It’s just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it’s just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.
~Haruki Murakami
Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
~Anthea Turner
I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
~Georg Brandes
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought — a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
~Mark Twain
Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you’d never know which were which.
~C S Lewis
A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.
~Kathie Lee Gifford
Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
~Matthew Arnold
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
~George Bernard Shaw
I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.
~F Scott Fitzgerald
Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.
~Gregory Maguire
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
~Charles M Schulz
We get tired of each other at times, but after a call from the people in the next house, we return with rapture to our delusion that we are interesting.
~W D Howells
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So, house, we love thee, as we could not love
A palace wherein no pulse of love had struck,
Where farewells had not been — and where
No busy memories haunt the vacant rooms.
~J J Britton
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
~George Washington
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.
~John Howard Payne
I’ve read in many a novel, that unless they’ve souls that grovel — Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
~Charles Stuart Calverley
…You’ll find, where’er you roam,
That marble floors and gilded walls
Can never make a home.
But every house where Love abides,
And Friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home-sweet-home:
For there the heart can rest.
~Henry Van Dyke
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~Jakub Blank: Bill Blair — A Walk Around the House (12:20) the artist, unresolved
https://vimeo.com/592144136
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~Top Trending: 15 Weirdest Houses In The World (12:03) title says it all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEMht4Q-1kc
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~Key and Peele: Finding a New Home Is Hard (3:16) but worth it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObbSup-Xg50
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How could he convey to someone who’d never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, but as long as Em was with him, he was at home?
~Jodi Picoult
I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home.
~Dorothy L Sayers
The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I’d never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.
~Ian Caldwell
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I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.
~Daniel Radcliffe
There’s been a lot of coming home in the early mornings after funny nights out, having bizarre sandwiches in bed.
~Neneh Cherry
I love sandwiches. Let’s face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.
~Jeff Mauro
At the end of the day, coming home to that one person that you know has your back, there’s no better feeling.
~Jonathan Scott
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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
~Helen Rowland
For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
~Stephanie Perkins
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
~Friedrich Schiller
For there we loved, and where we love is home
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
~W Somerset Maugham
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
~Mortimer Adler
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
~Khalil Gibran
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I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked her if she liked fallen trees, she went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me, I needed to see her again, I couldn’t explain my need to myself, and that’s why it was such a beautiful need, there’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.
~Jonathan Safran Foer
Never before have I imagined my life without him — like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.
~Tabitha Suzuma
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
~John Le Carre
It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
~Ann Radcliffe
Nobody’s home to offer a cup of coffee, nobody’s home to say goodbye.
~Sonia Walker
Not going home is already like death.
~E Catherine Tobler
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One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness.
~C S Lewis
What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.
~Albert Camus
Homey don’t quit. What else are you gonna do? It’s like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it’s over they check the clock and go home. That’s how it goes.
~Chubby Checker
No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home.
~Laura Marney
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When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
~Amy Tan
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
~Kurt Vonnegut
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~My home is not a place, it is people.
~Lois McMaster Bujold
I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.
~Oprah Winfrey
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 any more.
~Robin Hobb
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.
~Zig Ziglar
I like visiting people’s homes on Saint Joseph’s Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public — I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.
~Poppy Z Brite
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Jill told me that when you’re really in love, you know right away. I’m not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you’re picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.
~Alice Hoffman
Home is where there’s one to love us
~Charles Swain
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VIDEO:
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
~Sydney Smith
Five of the sweetest words in the English language begin with H, which is only a breath — Heart, Hope, Home, Happiness, and Heaven. Heart is a hope-place, and home is a heart-place; and that man sadly mistaketh, who would exchange the happiness of home for anything less than heaven.
~The Youth’s Companion, 1853
Three words fall on my listening ear
Like music from an Angel-lyre,
And when those thrilling words I hear
My spirit burns with Heavenly fire;
The sweetest words to mortals given,
Methinks are Mother, Home and Heaven…
~W G Brown
It has been said that the sweetest words in our language are “Mother, Home and Heaven”; and one might almost say that the word “Home” included the others.
~Silas X Floy
I’m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I’d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
~Louisa May Alcott
Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
~Charles Henry Parkhurst
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homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.
~Elizabeth Wurtzel
Homesickness is … absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. … You don’t really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don’t have, or haven’t been able to find. … I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be.
~John Cheever
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
~E W Howe
He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.
~Pete Wentz
It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
~Carson McCullers
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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
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
~Christian Morgenstern
Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.
~Pierce Brown
Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
~James Baldwin
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Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.
~Gregory Maguire
You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.
~Maya Angelou
Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.
~Ovid
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~Cristo Tomy: Return (4:59) no words, striking visuals tell the story
https://vimeo.com/100882727
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~Jorge Yudice: Bus Story (10:48) improbably sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMC6DhKVIV0
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~Kis Kis: Home Sweet Home (9:55) reprised, as a gift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gz9-I_iEbY
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~CG Meetup: Hewn (5:14) wooden it break your heart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSbJo1tySQI
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There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
~Kenny Guinn
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
~Kin Hubbard
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don’t want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
~Jerome K Jerome
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
~Samuel Johnson
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
~Ann Douglas
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A house is a machine for living in.
~Le Corbusier
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
~T H Robsjohn-Gibbings
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
~William Morris
Well, sometimes home is a person.
~Beth Revis
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
~Gaston Bachelard
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
~Francis Bacon
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
~Charles Caleb Colton
My Room shall be an Easy Room to Chat In,
With Chairs that look as if they had been Sat In.
~Arthur Guiterman
A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless.
~May Sarton
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
~Henry David Thoreau
When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different — and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.
~Erin Morgenstern
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
~Hermann Hesse
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Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
~Bruce Barton
A house is not a home.
~Polly Adler
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I go home and don’t get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don’t get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven’t loaded the dishwasher for her.
~Katherine Jenkins
you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers. Instead they talk about themselves, what they’ve been up to, what they’re going to do next, as if you’re a photo on the wall. And then they talk to one another, forgetting you’ve just flown in, forgetting you’re in the backseat, forgetting they’ve already said it all.
~Ellen Hopkins
I’m going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I’m going home right now.
~Benjamin Day
Nice to see your home fans boo you. That’s what loyal support is.
~Wayne Rooney
Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
~Channing Pollock
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MUSIC:
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
~Christian Nestell Bovee
And so they played some of the world’s loveliest piano music — the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.
~Eva Ibbotson
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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
~Barry Gibb
I don’t know what home or abroad is any more.
~Robin Gibb
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Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.
~Matthew Fox
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
~Louisa May Alcott
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
~Minna Antrim
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
~Primo Levi
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When I come home, it’s about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don’t have a lot of time to think about me.
~Taraji P Henson
There’s nothing like a home-cooked meal — nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, Uh, my house. It’s more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
~Giada De Laurentiis
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.
~Michael Pollan
The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.
~Lady Kasluck
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When I come home from a shoot, I’d rather reheat food I’ve made than eat takeout.
~Ted Allen
One’s home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening — the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life — and can never find again… There is something marvelous about returning home at the end of a long day, even if there is tuna fish for dinner.
~Lemony Snicket
I like being at home and cooking.
~Shania Twain
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I’d love to go home every night.
~Charlie Watts
I go home by noon, and I’m in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
~Bob Edwards (newsman)
This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.
~Rita Moreno
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I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.
~Sarah Brightman
I don’t know anybody who has so many places to go home to.
~Tony Longo
For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
~Abraham Cowley
Physically, our home is small and the rest of the world is large — but in our hearts, it’s the other way around.
~Terri Guillemets
The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
~Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
~Ernie Pyle
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn’t appreciate its beauty.
~Tyra Banks
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What’s the good of a home if you’re never in it.
~George Grossmith
I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.
~George Washington
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.
~John Howard Payne
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
~Fred Allen
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
~Maya Angelou
Home is where my mom is.
~Brittany Murphy
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~Sam Mason: Mac Miller, Colors and Shapes (4:20) one dog’s fantasy-journey from home in bed to bed as home, animated
https://vimeo.com/601518684
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~Cristina Molina: Return (2:54) a mini-film, to music
https://vimeo.com/52398246
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~Andrea Bocelli: Time To Say Goodbye (6:38) a reprise: 03/22/20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guRSl3n5nOc
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~Rod Stewart: Sailing (4:56) a reprise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQzB5T_B_iI
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He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up around her, how she had contentedly pursued her own lone quite path — for him.
~Charles Dickens
I’ve always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.
~Barry Goldwater
A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there’s a secure family atmosphere.
~Mel Gibson
When I come home and I’m tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.
~Oliver Reed
Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.
~Harry S Truman
Husband can’t understand why wife ever complains about anything when she has his coming home in the evening to look forward to.
~Kenneth B Alley
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
~Bill Cosby
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A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
~Chinese Proverb
Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone — childhood’s end. We have left a safe place and can’t go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn’t fair, where life is rarely what it should be.
~Judith Viorst
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
~Kin Hubbard
Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.
~Hesiod
I lived at home till I was 29.
~Ray Romano
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
~Martin Luther
A man’s home is his wife’s castle.
~Alexander Chase
The at-home mother’s life:
it was a race with no finish line.
~Kristin Hannah
When you’re a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it’s really boring, but it’s not. It’s enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you’re a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
~Amy Poehler
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
~Washington Irving
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It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
~Rose Wilder Lane
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
~Margaret Thatcher
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I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn’t have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.
~Allen Iverson
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it — can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
~Marguerite Duras
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Nick and Zuzu
@ gocomics.com
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If each day is a gift, I’d like to know where to return Mondays.
~John Wagner
What do you call a person who is happy on Mondays? Unemployed.
~Author unknown
If Monday were an animal, it would be a mosquito.
~John Waters
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There isn’t a child who hasn’t gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn’t return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.
~Art Buchwald
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
~Robert Brault
But even Abraham Lincoln returned from Gettysburg murmuring that he had forgotten the things he Really Wanted to Say.
~Christopher Morley
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There’s no place like home — after the other places close.
~Joe Laurie Jr
Home is where you come to when you have nothing better to do.
~Margaret Thatcher
If you’d take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can’t say. But it might.
~Gilbert K Chesterton
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
~Doug Larson
Home Alone was a movie, not an alibi.
~Jerry Orbach
It’s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
~Marcel Achard
The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
~Arthur C Clarke
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
I must say one thing about southern down-home brewed coffee with chicory. If you have worms, you’ll never have them again.
~Clive Cussler
In a cave dug out of the side of a cliff,
The Agent calls it a flat;
He thinks he knows, so I pay my rent,
And let it go at that
~Jean Wright
A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.
~George Carlin
Home is where you hang your head.
~Groucho Marx
The chickens have come home to roast.
~Jane Ace
I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.
~Frank Langella
In our home there was always prayer — aloud, proud and unapologetic.
~Lyndon B Johnson
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like
Home when it comes to
Wearing what you like.
~George Ade
There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.
~Bill Bryson
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
~Earl Wilson
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
~John Updike
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The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.
~Stephen Colbert
But truth be told, I’m not as dour-looking as I would like. I’m stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there’s my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me ‘Hon’.
~Sarah Vowell
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Talent Sunset
© Silvia Trujillo
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The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.
~Friedrich List
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
~Charles de Gaulle
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets. The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
~Gore Vidal
We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it’s not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We’re not free – if we were, we’d allow people their freedom.
~Jesse Ventura
Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children’s?
~King Abdullah II
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America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.
~Florence King
My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields.
~Robert B Laughlin
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
~Mike Huckabee
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
~J G Holland
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
~J C Watts
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Freedom, like charity, begins at home.
~Anne Roe
Peace, like charity, begins at home.
~Franklin D Roosevelt
I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
~Henry James
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
~Thomas Fuller
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
~Charles Dickens
Return good for good; return evil with justice.
~Confucius
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.
~Clare Boothe Luce
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But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
~Thomas Browne
I hear they feed you in Sing Sing, Evie muttered. Three squares a day. Evangeline, Will said with a sigh. Charity begins at home. So does mental illness.
~Libba Bray
Fool, ’tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
~Alexander Pope
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The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.
~Joe Manchin
The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return.
~Dillon Burroughs
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
~Francesco Guicciardini
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You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don’t care for obscenity, you don’t care for the truth; if you don’t care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.
~Tim O’Brien
We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.
~Dennis Chavez
War would end if the dead could return.
~Stanley Baldwin
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
~Charlie Chaplin
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@Writers Platform
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
~Arthur Smith
A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
~Anthony Hecht
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
~A R Ammons
I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief ‘don’t matter,’ that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
~A N Wilson
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
~Wilfred Owen
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There’s a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn’t been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.
~Joan Didion
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
~Henry David Thoreau
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
~Twyla Tharp
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
~John Berger
All language is a longing for home.
~Rumi
Home is where the books are
~Richard Francis Burton
I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
~Elie Wiesel
If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.
~Pearl S Buck
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Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.
~Jim Carrey
It doesn’t matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that’s all that really matters to me.
~Marshawn Lynch
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.
~David Leavitt
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
~Haruki Murakami
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
~Sigmund Freud
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From The Grove:
~Christone @Wordgrove Library
A Book: by Charles Kingsley
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book! – a message to us from the dead – from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps thousands of miles away: and yet these, on those little sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us, vivify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. . . . I say we ought to reverence books, to look at them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true; whether they are about religion or politics, farming, or trade, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things, the teacher of all truth, which He has put into the hearts of some man to speak, that he may tell us what is good for our spirits, for our bodies for our country. Would to God that all here would make the rule never to look into an evil book!
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(copied from old newspaper – 10/18/20)
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
~Samuel Johnson
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
~Thomas a Kempis
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Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.
~Jonathan Safran Foer
One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
~Mark Twain
Return to the root and you will find the meaning.
~Sengcan
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Now what shall I
Stay home or roam?
“Roam,” Pleasure said;
And Joy “stay home.”
~W H Davies
Ah! there is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
~Jane Austen
There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside.
~Cicero
Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
I look forward anxiously to the return of bad weather, coal fires, and good society in a crowded city. I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
~Sydney Smith
Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest;
Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I’m kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that’s just how I am.
~Kristi Yamaguchi
When I’m at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.
~Robert Duvall
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Prewritten Prompt: return/home
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That’s what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.
~Tom Bodett
It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.
~Eric Roth
You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.
~Paul Theroux
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If you want to be a photographer, first leave home
~Steve McCurry
The hero’s journey always begins with the call. One way or another, a guide must come to say, ‘Look, you’re in Sleepy Land. Wake. Come on a trip. There is a whole aspect of your consciousness, your being, that’s not been touched. So you’re at home here? Well, there’s not enough of you there.’ And so it starts.
~Joseph Campbell
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
~Robert Neelly Bellah
Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.
~Petronius
Many writers believe in arrival without leaving home. They believe in talent but not skill.
~Judy Delton
‘Leaving home’ to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society, your home, tells you is important.
~Brad Warner
Travel challenges truths that we were raised thinking were self-evident and God-given. Leaving home, we learn other people find different truths to be self-evident. We realize that it just makes sense to give everyone a little wiggle room.
~Rick Steves
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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
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
~Cesare Pavese
It’s not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I’ve done much longer trips on my own. It’s leaving home.
~Scott Westerfeld
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THE EXERCISE
return
breaking quiet of first light
local dogs asleep
early birds are at it tho
the roosters fer sure
meadow cows, one is lowing
distant music snaps on
somewhere a voice
welcome choir of first light
but home means sleeping late
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with a sigh
gone so long
only the dog remembers
a return to uncertainties
the changes
ashes and seeds of time
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rephrase
rhapsodic strains of nostalgia
songs on the radio trill of home
lyrical captures of longing
music in the service of story
repatterned memories
tomes in tune
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heaven scent #28
same scent
same breed
my own
skunk-sweet
she’s terrific
odorific
the outcome
I succumb
overcome
safe at home
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first aid
a stranger at home
at home on the road
something broke
needs a resetting
a way of forgetting
the regrets
still regretting
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peripatetic
all the roads
unfolding alone
never person or place
but a private space
at armored pace
a turtle’s life
with carapace home
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stoned bones
tome, literate illusions
poem, clever allusions
dome, shape of decision
drone, male of derision
phone, face-time deletion
tone, cause of confusion
roam, chosen exclusion
loam with seed in collusion
home, zone of inclusion
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Last quotes:
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peace – that was the other name for home.
~Kathleen Norris
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Home: The place where the world’s strife is shut out and the world’s love is shut in.
~”Home” in Your Health! 1906
The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
~G K Chesterton
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The return makes one love the farewell.
~Alfred De Musset
Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation — coming home again.
~Madeleine L’Engle
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[A hug] is non-taxable, non-polluting, and is, of course, fully returnable.
~Author unknown
He decided he had best return to the hall, out of the way of temptation.
~Ray Smith
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Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
~Irish Proverb
Home wasn’t built in a day.
~Jane Sherwood Ace
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When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that’s happened that day just melts away.
~Hugh Jackman
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
~Robert Bly
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Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
~Steve Jobs
Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.
~Babe Ruth
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The dollar that is borrowed is never so large as the one that has to be returned.
~Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
~Plautus
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It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.
~Eric Roth
You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.
~Paul Theroux
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Outside of being home with my family, I prefer a crowd.
~Clive Owen
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One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.
~Jhumpa Lahiri
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Go big or go home. Because it’s true. What do you have to lose?
~Eliza Dushku
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A hotel isn’t like a home, but it’s better than being a house guest.
~William Feather
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The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.
~Laozi
A home filled with nothing but yourself.
It’s heavy, that lightness.
It’s crushing, that emptiness.
~Margaret Atwood
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Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.
~Elizabeth von Arnim
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
~John Muir
Each summer when I return to the lake I am no longer so much afraid of the dark as I am afraid for the dark.
~Paul Bogard
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It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.
~Danzy Senna
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
~John Ciardi
You can’t go home again
~Thomas Wolfe
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The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
~Confucius
Isn’t that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?
~Rick Santorum
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You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn’t feel like it’s being tainted by everybody’s opinions and other people’s money. I think I’m kind of homesick right now.
~Mikky Ekko
I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn’t know what or where home was.
~Marian Keyes
I can get on with all different sorts of people, and I never feel homesick, particularly, or I’ve never felt kind of patriotic towards any one country.
~Andy Serkis
I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
~Carson McCullers
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
~Jodi Picoult
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
~Og Mandino
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ‘I was wrong’.
~Sydney J Harris
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
~James Allen
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
~Leo Buscaglia
I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
~David Alan Grier
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Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to.
~John Ed Pearce
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
~Matsuo Basho
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