“With languages, you are at home anywhere.”
“It is not an unusual life curve for Westerners - to live i n and be shaped by the bigness, sparseness, space clarity & hopefulness of the West, to go away for study and enlargement and the perspective that distance and dissatisfaction can give, and then to return to what pleases the sight and enlists the loyalty and demands the commitment.”
“Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.”
“You do see me crossing the meadow stiff and dead from the mist? I long for that home, that home I ve never had, and without any hope that I ll ever be able to reach it. For such a home, never touched, I carry that longing that will never die, like that meadow dies stiff and dead from the mist. You do see me crossing it, full of dread?”
“I don’t have home without him”, Carrie said when doctor asked her to go home. “I won’t give up on him. Do you hear me, Doctor? Don’t you give up on him!”
“It’s important to honor your ancestors. Bringing in a piece of furniture or an object you’ve inherited from a loved one not only honors the person who has passed but also brings the warmth of happy memories into your home.”
“Space is a precious thing to waste. You don t want to fill your house with anything that doesn t directly add to your happiness.”
“Papa taps on the skylight and I look up. He waves at me and smiles. I smile back. For now, I don t need to know what lies ahead. For now it s enough just to be here, safe aboard the Morning Star with my family and friends. For now, it s enough to be home.”
“Made as we were in the image of God we scarcely find it strange to take again our God as our All. God was our original habitat and our hearts cannot but feel at home when they enter again that ancient and beautiful abode.”
“He said it was better to belong where you don t belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”
“Build a House for men and birds. Sit with them and play music. For a day, for just one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace, my friend, into your beautiful eyes.”
“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you”
“He s pressing me to his chest. I melt. Oh, this is where I want to be I rest my head against him, and he kisses my hair repeatedly. This is home. He smells of linen, fabric softener, body wash, and my favourite smell - Christian. For a moment, I allow myself the illusion that all will be well, and it soothes my ravaged soul”
“Perhaps home, like the moon will follow wherever she goes.”
“What a surprise it is to discover that you have never needed to strive to survive and be happy after all. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, who discovered that she always had the means for going home, you already have what you need to be happy and safe. You have never really left Home. However, if you don t believe you already have what you need to be happy and safe, it is as if it isn t true: If we don t know the ruby slippers will take us home, it s like not having them. The ego keeps us from seeing the truth about those ruby slippers- it keeps us from seeing the truth about life. Home is right here, right now, but we may not realize it and there for not experience Home, or Essence as much as we might.”
“Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.”
“I thought about that old saying, how we can never go home again. But I think it s more like a piece of us stays behind when we leave -- a piece we can never reclaim, one that awaits our next visit and demands that we remember.”