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A home is the place where one lives

• Home:  The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.  Oxford Dictionary
• Home:  The house, apartment, etc. where you live, especially with your family.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Happiness,  Family,  Childhood,  Parenting

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Home is a deeply evocative word 

• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. Charles Dickens
• Home — that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings. Lydia M. Child
• Home is the nicest word there is. Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Home is so much more than a simple shelter … 

• A roof to keep out the rain? Four walls to keep out the wind? Floors to keep out the cold?  Yes, but home is more than that. It is the laugh of a baby, the song of a mother, the strength of a father, warmth of loving hearts, lights from happy eyes, kindness, loyalty, comradeship. Home is first school and first church for young ones, where they learn what is right, what is good, and what is kind, where they go for comfort when they are hurt or sick; where joy is shared and sorrow eased; where fathers and mothers are respected and loved, where children are wanted; where the simplest food is good enough for kings because it is earned; where money is not as important as loving-kindness; where even the tea kettle sings from happiness. That is home.  God bless it!   Ernestine Schuman Heink

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… and a house is by no means always a home 

• Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night’s sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend. Zig Ziglar
• The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman– it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused. Lemony Snicket
• To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ”home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. Emily Post
• Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home. Anthony Liccione
• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin
• A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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Maybe home isn’t a place at all but people … 

• For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home. Stephanie Perkins
• Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place? Stephanie Perkins
• 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
• Home” is any four walls that enclose the right person. Helen Rowland
• Well, sometimes home is a person. Beth Revis, A Million Suns
• I don’t care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together. James Patterson
• I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them. Nancy Reagan

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… especially your family … 

• A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. Gautama Buddha
• Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners and their little son watching it burn. The reporter, fishing for a human interest angle, said to the boy, “Son, it looks like you don’t have a home anymore.” The little boy promptly answered, “Oh, yes, we have a home.  We just don’t have a house to put it in. Barbara Johnson
• What a difference it makes to come home to a child! Margaret Fuller
• The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson
• A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. John Andrew Holmes
• Having a place to go – is a home. Having someone to love – is a family.  Having both – is a blessing.  Donna Hedges
• Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home. Anthony Liccione
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… who love you … 

• Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. Marjorie Pay Hinckley
• 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
• Home is where the hugs are.
• Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. The Dalai Lama
• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Robert Frost
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… and understand you … 

• Home is not where you live but where they understand you. Christian Morgenstern
• Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul. John O’Donohue
• What is home? My favorite definition is “a safe place,” a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It’s a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable. Gladys Hunt
• I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here. Lauren Myracle
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… and notice when you’re not there 

• Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need. Margaret Mead
• One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night. Margaret Mead
• Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there. Aleksandar Hemon

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Home is where you can make your friends feel at home 

• Come and share a pot of tea. My home is warm and my friendship’s free. Emilie Barnes
• Good hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even when you wish they were. Alfred E. Neuman
• In fact, people who posses no magic at all can instill their home-cooked meals with love and security and health, transforming ingredients and bringing disparate people together as family and friends. There’s a reason that when opening one’s home to guests, the first thing you do is offer food and drink. Cooking is a kind of everyday magic. Juliet Blackwell
• Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that’s really where you wish they were. George E. Bergman
• To be an ideal guest, stay at home. E. W. Howe
• Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. S. Farynski
• Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies. Orson Scott Card
• May your home always be too small to hold all your friends. Irish Blessing
• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the winning, but laughter and the love of friends. Hilaire Belloc

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Home is where you are not alone 

• 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.  Casare Pavese
• A home filled with nothing but yourself. It’s heavy, that lightness. It’s crushing, that emptiness. Margaret Atwood, The Tent

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Home isn’t a place but a state of mind 

• Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace. Dennis Lehane
• Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Tad Williams
• Home isn’t a place, its a feeling. Cecelia Ahern

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Home is where nature is 

• Going to the woods is going home. John Muir
• Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. Lorraine Anderson
• Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. Gary Snyder
• Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity. John Muir
• I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows…. glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round. John Burroughs
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Home is where you are … 

• Where thou art – that – is Home. Emily Dickinson
• But do not ask me where I am going as I travel in this limitless world, where every step I take is my home. Dogen
• Let your home be you mast and not your anchor. Khalil Gibran
• Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is.  There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.  Tony Parsons
• I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. Maya Angelou

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… wherever you are in this very moment of now 

• Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are , you feel that you are home– because you are home. Eckhart Tolle
• Your true home is in the here and the now. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment. Lily Leung
• Here is home. Right here where I am, in this moment, regardless of where I am or what I am feeling. John Kehoe
• Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Live in the now

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Home is within you 

• Home is neither here nor there. Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all. Hermann Hesse
• Home is not around the hearth. It is within the heart.  Any worthwhile pilgrimage brings us home, and so does any distant voyage for the sake of love.  Donald Masterson
• The treasure within

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Home is where you start from … 

• Home is where one starts from. T.S Eliot

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… and where all journeys end … 

• All journeys eventually end in the same place, home. Chris Geiger
• The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. That’s the best thing about a walking, the journey itself.  It doesn’t much matter whether you get where your going or not.  You’ll get there anyway.  Every good hike brings you eventually back home.  Right were you started. Edward Abbey
• Life is a journey

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… for every path leads home 

• A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one’s suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother. Hermann Hesse
• At Christmas, all roads lead home. Marjorie Holmes

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Home is the journey itself … 

• Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Bashô
• The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser
• The journey itself is my home. Bashō Matsuo
• Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. Tad Williams

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… wherever you set up camp 

• But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: “Home is home, be it never so homely.” Henry David Thoreau

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The whole universe is your home 

• When I learn something new–and it happens every day–I feel a little more at home in the universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. Bill Moyers
• The whole universe is your home. All are your family. Sri Neem Karoli Baba
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Home is where you can dream 

• 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
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Home is where children learn … 

• What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children’s growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn’t a school at all. John Holt
• The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work. William H. Masters
• Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Home ought to be our clearinghouse, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life. Kathleen Norris
• Raising children,  Learning

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… especially virtue 

• The home is the chief school of human virtues. William Ellery Channing
• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Winston Churchill
• There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent. Mahatma Gandhi
• The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can take the place of home in rearing and teaching children, and no other success can compensate for failure in the home. David O. McKay
• Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. Charles Dickens
• Charity begins at home, but should not end there. Thomas Fuller
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Home is where character is built 

• Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection. Frank H. Cheley
• When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence. Stephen Covey
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Home is where the spirit of Christmas is 

• At Christmas, all roads lead home. Marjorie Holmes
• Christmas is a time when you get homesick – even when you’re home. Carol Nelson
• Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. K. Chesterton
• Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given – when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.  Joan Winmill Brown
• For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. J. Ronald Tucker
• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! Charles Dickens
• The most vivid memories of Christmases past are usually not of gifts given or received, but of the spirit of love, the special warmth of Christmas worship, the cherished little habits of home. Lois Rand
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The ache for home is in all of us, especially the nostalgic home of our childhoods … 

• 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
• How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. William Faulkner
• 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. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.  Lemony Snicket
• I suspected, however, that I wasn’t homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn’t find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me. Alice Steinbach
• A kind of memory that tells us that what we’re now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.  Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
• When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood. Sam Ewing
• Home is one’s birthplace, ratified by memory. Henry Anatole Grunwald
• 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
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… for home is a deep human need 

• Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home.  There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts.  That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home. Rosalynn Carter
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Be grateful for home … 

• Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water, for the everlasting hills and the never resting winds, for trees and the common grass underfoot. Walter Rauschenbusch
• Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Melody Beattie
• Imagine losing some of the things that you take for granted, such as your home, your ability to see or hear, your ability to walk, or anything that currently gives you comfort. Then imagine getting each of these things back, one by one, and consider how grateful you would be for each and every one. Marelisa Fabrega
• Open your eyes to beauty. See the homes, the trees, the gardens.  See the shining faces of little children. Listen for the church chimes, singing birds and the laughter of happy people.  Wilferd A. Peterson
• Gratitude,  Appreciation

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… for home is one of life’s simplest but greatest gifts … 

• The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things… the trivial pleasure like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard. Barbara Pym
• If one could only learn to appreciate the little things … A song that takes you away, for there are those who cannot hear. The beauty of a sunset, for there are those who cannot see. The warmth and safety of your home, for there are those who are homeless… Search your soul and learn to appreciate. Shadi Souferian
• Life is a gift

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… a gift that not everyone is blessed with 

• It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. John Kenneth Galbraith
• Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend. Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

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In all the world, there is no place like home … 

• There is no place like home. Frank Baum
• Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. Robert Montgomery
• Home is the most popular and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments. Channing Pollock
• There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
• Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. Ann Douglas
• There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits. Robert Southey

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… no matter how humble it may be 

• Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home. Sarah J. Hale
• A man’s house is his castle. James Otis
• Home is home, though it be homely. English Proverb
• Home is home, be it ever so humble. Proverb

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Home is where the heart is … 

• Home is where the heart is. Pliny The Elder
• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I’m always at home – yea, I’m always at Om. Eden Ahbez
• Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart’s tears can dry at their own pace.  Vernon Baker
• It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.
• Home is not around the hearth. It is within the heart.  Any worthwhile pilgrimage brings us home, and so does any distant voyage for the sake of love.  Donald Masterson
• Every man, every woman carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. Edward Abbey
• The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it. Vera Nazarian
• I don’t want to say something cheesy like ‘home is where the heart is,’ but home is definitely where the heart is. And my heart is, and has always been, with you. Melissa Senate, The Breakup Club
• The word mean home in German, the place where one was born. But the term also conveys a subtler nuance, a certain tenderness. One’s Heimat is not merely a matter of geography; it is where one’s heart lies. Jenna Blum, Those Who Save Us
• Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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… and where the soul can find shelter from the storms of life 

• Home is a shelter from storms – all sorts of storms. William J. Bennett
• 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 Eyquem De Michel de Montaigne
• A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. Phillip Moffitt
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Home is where you can open your heart and reveal yourself 

• Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.  It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts.  It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out without any sensation of awkwardness and without any dread of ridicule.  Frederick W. Robertson
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Home is where real comfort is 

• Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. Jane Austen
• There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen
• Home is the place where it feels right to walk around without shoes.
• Home is where you can scratch where it itches.
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Home is where peace is 

• 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
• The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one’s own fireplace.  Cicero
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Home is where warmth is 

• It’s the national addiction: warmth on chilly winter nights, innocence on Saturday afternoons, the essence of hearth, home and blissful abandon. Patricia Linden
• Come and share a pot of tea. My home is warm and my friendship’s free. Emilie Barnes
• The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one’s own fireplace.  Cicero
• The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there. Ellie Rodriguez
• 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. It is no season in which to wander the world as if one were the wind blowing aimlessly along the streets without a place to rest, without food, and without time meaning anything to one, just as time means nothing to the wind. Edith Sitwell

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Bring love into your home 

• It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us.  It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home.  Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.  Mother Teresa
• Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. Billy Graham
• Love is the only bow of life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star… It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Robert Green Ingersoll
• If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘good morning’ at total strangers. Maya Angelou
• Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family. Bo Bennett
• Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home. Mother Teresa
• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action. Mother Teresa
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Bring peace into your home 

• Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy. Mother Teresa
• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa
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Some argue that home is somewhere you can never go back to … 

• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. Maya Angelou
• You can’t go home again. Thomas Wolfe
• You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back. James Baldwin
• You can’t go home again” ─ isn’t necessarily that places change but people do. Lauren Oliver
• Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
• One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. Hermann Hesse

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… while others assert that home is something that never leaves you 

• In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, waiting for us in the mist. Ari Berk, Death Watch
• I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe. Maya Angelou
• You can go other places, all right – you can live on the other side of the world, but you can’t ever leave home. Sue Monk Kidd
• Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• 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
• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right. Maya Angelou

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To improve the world, you always need to start at home 

• Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times. Chinese Proverb
• If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations. When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world. Sathya Sai Baba
• The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius
• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family. Mother Teresa
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Success at home precedes all other successes 

• Make deposits into the Emotional Bank Accounts of your key relationships and nurture the people you are close to. Success and harmony at home precede all other successes. Stephen Covey
• No other success can compensate for failure in the home. David McKay
• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. Zig Ziglar
• No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. Benjamin Disraeli
• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. Samuel Johnson
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Don’t allow home to be encroached on by work 

• Full engagement begins with feeling eager to get to work in the morning, equally happy to return home in the evening and capable of setting clear boundaries between the two. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
• Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other. Zig Ziglar
• When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home. Betty Bender
• That’s what so many people didn’t understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes. Orson Scott Card, Hidden Empire
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Keep your home simple … 

• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. Jerome K. Jerome
• The scale of our homes should be derived from the real needs of our daily lives, not from vanity, insecurity, or a need for public display. Home should be the setting for life, not the measure of it. James Gauer
• Simplicity,  Simple living

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… and uncluttered 

• Clutter is a form of visual distraction, and everything in our vision pulls at our attention. The less clutter, the less visual stress we have. A simple home is calming. Leo Babauta
• Now that you have some extra time on your hands, declutter your life. Go through each room of your house and either sell, donate, or throw away things you rarely use and don’t need. Having a clean home free of clutter will help you feel refreshed and rejuvenated as you start this new chapter of your life. It also has the potential to put some extra money in your pocket if you sell some of the items you decide to get rid of. Ashley Jacobs
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A home needs a comfy chair 

• A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. May Sarton

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A home needs a garden 

• Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes. Clare Ansberry
• Gardening

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A home needs books 

• A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin
• Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. Anna Quindlen
• A house without books is like a room without windows. Horace Mann
• A room without books is like a body without a soul. Cicero
• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
• I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends… letting the world roll on as it likes, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give. Thomas Jefferson
• Books,  Reading

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A home needs a dog or cat 

• A house is not a home until it has a dog. Gerald Durrell
• Every dog should have a man of his own. There is nothing like a well-behaved person around the house to spread the dog’s blanket for him, or bring him his supper when he comes home man-tired at night. Corey Ford
• For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog. Roger Caras
• Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them. John Grogan
• I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau
• A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title? Mark Twain
• Dogs,  Cats

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Sometimes to find our way home, we need to get wander and even get lost 

• It is good to feel lost… because it proves you have a navigational sense of where “Home” is. You know that a place that feels like being found exists.  And maybe your current location isn’t that place but, Hallelujah, that unsettled, uneasy feeling of lost- ness just brought you closer to it.    Erika Harris
• It is so important to grant ourselves permission to wander as part of our spiritual journey. So often mischaracterised as lostness, there is a kind of immersion in the not knowing that is actually quite necessary if we are going to find our way home. Jeff Brown
• Travel,  Exploration

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Venturing away from home gives us a whole new appreciation for home 

• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. Lin Yutang
• Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. Jodi Picoult
• Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. Madeleine L’Engle
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Venturing away from home helps us see it in a new light 

• Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett
• Trips do not end when you return home–usually this is the time when in a sense they really begin. Agnes E. Benedict and Adele Franklin
• 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
• See the familiar with new eyes

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Venturing away from home helps us really know it when we return 

• We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and to know the place for the first time. T. S. Eliot
• A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore
• In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. Samuel Johnson
• The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home. Terry Pratchett
• It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home. Rumi

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Venturing away from home helps us grow and find ourselves 

• Travel does not exist without home…. If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world. Josh Gates
• I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits. Cindy Ross
• Growth,  Self-knowledge

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Venturing away from home gives us a whole new perspective on home 

• Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you’ll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you’re away…One’s little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there. Gail Rubin Bereny
• The sum of a journey equals a new perspective of home. Azyh
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Venturing away from home requires an open mind or we’re better off staying home 

• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James A. Michener
• People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. Runes
• I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad. George Bernard Shaw
• To feel at home, stay at home. Clifton Fadiman
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Venturing away from home can make us feel alive and free 

• Personally, I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. Michael Mewshaw
• One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. Sir Richard Burton
• When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on. Catherynne M. Valente
• Freedom,  Aliveness,  Vitality

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Venturing away from home is where we meet people and people get to really know us 

• To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality. John Tibbetts
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Venturing away from home is essential for embracing life experience 

• Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two. Lynsay Sands
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Venturing away from home is essential for adventure 

• Adventure must start with running away from home. William Bolitho
• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. Henry David Thoreau
• I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to–and that is what adventures are all about. Trina Schart Hyman
• 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. Thornton Wilder
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When you venture away from home, remember you’re always in someone else’s home 

• Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard. Vera Nazarian

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Home is a spiritual metaphor for a state of inner peace and freedom … 

• Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness. Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home — at ease. Surya Das
• Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home. Susan Jeffers
• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time- torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself. Thomas R. Kelly
• You don’t have to believe everything your thoughts tell you. Just become familiar with the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. Becoming familiar with your stressful thoughts will show you the way home to everything you need. Byron Katie
• The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person. Thomas Merton
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… a state of love …

• Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
• When you truly feel this equal love for all, when your heart has expanded so much that it embraces the whole of creation, you will certainly not feel like giving up this or that. You will simply drop off from secular life as a ripe fruit drops from the branch of a tree. You will feel that the whole world is your home. Ramana Maharshi
• Your purpose is about discovering and nurturing who you truly are, to know and love yourself at the deepest level and to guide yourself back home when you lose your way. That’s it. Everything else is your burning passion, your inspired mission, your job, your love-fueled hobby, etc. Those things are powerful and essential, but they’re not your purpose. Your purpose is much bigger than that. Kris Carr
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… a state of pure stillness …

• Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals. Silence is where god dwells. We yearn to be there. We yearn to share it. Lois Huey-Heck
• Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred.  It always returns you home. Barbara De Angelis
• True silence really means going deep within yourself to that place where nothing is happening, where you transcend time and space. You go into a brand new dimension of nothingness. That’s where all the power is. That’s your real home. That’s where you really belong, in deep Silence where there is no good or bad, no one trying to achieve anything.  Just being, pure being. . . . Silence is the ultimate reality.  Robert Adams
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… a state of inner acceptance …

• I come home to life as well. Things are what they are. I let go and allow life to just happen, instead of trying to orchestrate it. I appreciate everything just for what it is. John Kehoe
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… a state of flow … 

• There is one aspect of happiness that’s been well studied, and it’s the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else? Martin Seligman
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… a state of awakening …

• The crisis, as well as the opportunity, of our time is to surrender our ego and conditioned fear mechanisms to the primary torsion energy of unconditional love that is seeking to evolve us and is calling us as a species home. Sol Luckman
• God’s greatest truth is that there is not one way only but many ways Home. There are a thousand paths to God and every one will get you there. Indeed all paths lead to God. This is because there is no other place to go. N. D. Walsch
• The more we drop out of our egoic mind and into our senses, the more pleasure our senses deliver. Pleasure actually points the way Home. Gina Lake
• Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home. Emme Rollins, Dear Rockstar
• We are all just walking each other home. Ram Das
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… a state of knowing and being your true self 

• Find a form of service that calls to you, that suits your abilities, aptitudes, qualities, and interests, that makes time fly, that draws forth your best, that tells you you’ve arrived home and found yourself. Dan Millman
• Home is oneness, home is my original nature. It is right here, simply in what is.  There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become.  Tony Parsons
• It is the aim of all spiritual seeking to bring us home, home to the understanding that we already have everything we need. Katrina Kenison
• The nature of light is to shine. The way of the river is to return home to its sea. The essence of human is being. Chad Christopher Cobb
• We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. It is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home. Sharon Salzberg

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Meditation and mindfulness helps you bring your mind home 

• The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax! Sogyal Rinpoche
• Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Take the time to come home to yourself every day. Robin Casarjean
• The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind — with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind’s return home. Thich Nhat Hanh
• We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home. Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.  Sogyal Rinpoche
• Mindfulness,  Meditation

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More metaphors for home 

• Welcome the emotion, much as you’d welcome a friend into your home. Welcoming doesn’t mean you agree or forgive the emotion, just embrace it, accept it, welcome it. Allow it to be there, instead of pretending it doesn’t exist. Bob Parsons
• A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you’re at home.
• One is always at home in one’s past… Vladimir Nabokov
• God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. Joseph Roux
• Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home. Walter Farrell
• You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. Og Mandino
• Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home. Novalis
• When love isn’t in our lives, it’s on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o’clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love. Marianne Williamson    

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Aspire to turn your community into a home 

• A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must get it this soul. Pope John Paul II
• Cut off is our customary state of being. But there is within us the constant yearning for connectedness, a yearning–“Ah!-  – to live without the slightest partition between our souls and the distant stars, between ourselves and the world’s otherness.  We yearn for community with each other because we know that with it we would feel more at home in our lives, no longer strangers to one another and aliens to the earth.  Parker J. Palmer
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We need to feel at home in our bodies 

• It’s such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body. Marilyn Wann
• Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body’s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body’s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. Henri Nouwen

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Earth is our only home and we must look after it 

• In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote “This is mankind’s home”, “in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space above us”. He describes the fragility of our existence in poetic terms: “The atmospheric layer is so thin that it cannot be represented on any globe with even the finest brushstroke. At its thickest, it is only a few fractions of a millionth of the Earth’s radius. This thin layer is what makes the difference between our planet and the sterile landscape of the moon.” After reading that, one does feel the need to take better care of this fragile layer. Margot Wallstrom 
• The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home. David Suzuki
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Homemade and home-grown are always best 

• Homemade meals—especially mommy meals—are life’s most pleasant fuel. Terri Guillemets
• It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a home-grown tomato. Lewis Grizzard

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• Home: The place where you can scratch any place you itch.
• Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.
• Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to. John Ed Pearce
• A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. Don Fraser
• A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing. Somerset Maugham
• A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. Clare Boothe Luce
• Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. Phyllis Diller
• An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. Bum Phillips
• An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides. Edwin Meese III
• Be nice to your kids. They’ll choose your nursing home.
• Every dog is a lion at home. G. Bohn
• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. Iris Murdoch
• Get out of my way! I’m in a hurry to get home and relax. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Expert: An ordinary guy 50 miles from home
• Good hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even when you wish they were. Alfred E. Neuman
• Home is where the wine is.
• Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back. Earl Wilson
• Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst. Marjorie Pay Hinckley
• Homesick: Dead broke abroad.   Ambrose Bierce
• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. Bill Cosby
• I come from a home where gravy is a beverage. Erma Bombeck
• I had my mind made up to stay at home with her but she had her face made up to go out.
• My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That’s what happens when you haven’t been home in eighteen years. Lee Trevino
• Specialist: a doctor with a smaller practice but a bigger home. 
• Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home. David Frost
• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant and let the air out of the tires. Dorothy Parker
• You see much more of your children once they leave home. Lucille Ball
• When you look like your passport photo, it’s time to go home. Erma Bombeck
• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing? Samuel Goldwyn
• When some things go wrong at home, I always give my wife a good listening to.
• I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ‘Get the hell off my property.’ Joan Rivers

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