Heartwarming Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Home

### Discover the Essence of Home Through Timeless Quotes Home is more than just a place; it's a feeling, a sanctuary, and a source of comfort. This curated collection of inspirational quotes about home captures the profound emotions and meanings that make a house truly a home. From the warmth of family to the peace found within familiar walls, these quotes offer insight and inspiration for anyone seeking to appreciate the true value of home. ### Embrace the Spirit of Home Whether you're longing for a place to belong or simply want to celebrate the joy of home, these quotes from renowned authors, thinkers, and leaders remind us that home is where love resides, memories are made, and hearts find rest. Dive into this heartfelt compilation and let the words inspire you to cherish your own home and the people who make it special.

Wisdom from the Masters

"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."

- Sarah Dessen

Love

"Home isn't a place, it's a feeling."

- Cecelia Ahern

Love

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

- Jane Austen

Contentment

"There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home."

- Rosalynn Carter

Well-being

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Love

"The ache for home lives in all of us."

- Maya Angelou

Adversity

"And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you — I am at rest with you — I have come home."

- Dorothy L. Sayers

Love

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do … but how much love we put in that action."

- Mother Teresa

Love

"Home is where the heart is."

- Pliny the Elder

Belief

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

- Jane Austen

Contentment

"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

Adversity

"You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right."

- Maya Angelou

Philosophy

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action."

- Mother Teresa

Love

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

- Thomas Jefferson

Family

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

- Robert Frost

Family

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

- Maya Angelou

Hope

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

- Benjamin Franklin

Well-being

"Every happy home has a foundation of love and a framework of support."

- Wes Fesler

Love

"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

Happiness

"Home is a shelter from storms — all sorts of storms."

- William J. Bennett

Resilience

"No matter who you are or where you are, instinct tells you to go home."

- Laura Marney

Belief

"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

- Helen Rowland

Love

"Home is the nicest word there is."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Love

"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."

- Charles Henry Parkhurst

Spirituality

"Seek home for rest, for home is best."

- Thomas Tusser

Well-being

"Peace — that was the other name for home."

- Kathleen Norris

Peace

"The home should be the treasure chest of living."

- Le Corbusier

Inspiration

"Where thou art — that — is home."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home."

- Malala Yousafzai

Love

"The home is the chief school of human virtues."

- William Ellery Channing

Education

"Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation — coming home again."

- Madeleine L’Engle

Joy

"It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can."

- G. K. Chesterton

Creativity

"‘I’ve had a splendid time,’ she concluded happily, ‘and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.’"

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

Joy

"Better to have a messy home and happy children than a perfect yard and unhappy children."

- Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Balance

"Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark."

- Pierce Brown

Hope

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

- George A. Moore

Family

"Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than any magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration."

- Charles Dickens

Belief

"Home — the 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

Spirituality

"Homeward bound / I wish I was / Homeward bound / Home where my thought’s escapin’ / Home where my music’s playin’ / Home where my love lies waitin’ / Silently for me"

- Paul Simon

Love

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home."

- John Howard Payne

Belief

"You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow."

- Henning Mankell

Philosophy

"One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time."

- Hermann Hesse

Philosophy

"Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home."

- Henry Drummond

Personal Growth

"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again."

- Rumi

Spirituality

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Love

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."

- Louisa May Alcott

Gratitude

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

- Billy Graham

Spirituality

"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."

- William Morris

Simplicity

"Home is where you feel at home and are treated well."

- Dalai Lama

Well-being

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

- Amelia Earhart

Gratitude

"One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night."

- Margaret Mead

Connection to Earth

"You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home."

- Og Mandino

Hope

"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

Education

"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

Peace

"Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security."

- Suze Orman

Well-being

"Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need."

- Sarah Bon Breathnach

Gratitude

"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

Environment

"I am going home. Nothing can stop me now."

- Trent Reznor

Determination

"Where thou art, that is home."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"In love of home, the love of country has its rise."

- Charles Dickens

Belief

"Home is wherever you leave everything you love and never question that it will be there when you return."

- Leo Christopher

Love

"Home was not just a cabin in a deep woods that overlooked a placid cove. Home was a state of mind, the peace that came from being who you were and living an honest life."

- Kristin Hannah

Peace

"The home is the one place where we can be ourselves and shut out negativity from the world outside. It's so important to have a place where we can go and feel protected from it all; it's something we all deserve."

- Pia Edberg

Peace

"Home is where we should feel secure and comfortable."

- Catherine Pulsifer

Contentment

"I want my home to be that kind of place—a place of sustenance, a place of invitation, a place of welcome."

- Mary DeMuth

Love

"For our home to be a refuge, it needs to be a place where love, compassion and patience prevail."

- Allan Lokos

Peace

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Peace

"I believe that all of our lives we're looking for home and if we're really lucky, we find it in someone's loving arms. I think that's what life is: coming home."

- Anita Krizzan

Love

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."

- John Howard Payne

Love

"A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body."

- Margaret Fuller

Belief in Self

"Home is a shelter from storms ll sorts of storms."

- William J. Bennett

Resilience

"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."

- Stephanie Perkins

Love

"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there anymore."

- Robin Hobb

Family

"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

Belief

"When you wrapped your arms around me and held me, I knew that no matter what happened with my life, you were my home."

- Colleen Hoover

Love

"Home sweet home. This is the place to find happiness. If one doesn't find it here, one doesn't find it anywhere."

- M. K. Soni

Happiness

"A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of anxiety, tension and worry."

- Wilfred Peterson

Peace

"'Home' is any four walls that enclose the right person."

- Helen Rowland

Love

"When you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

- Oprah Winfrey

Connection to Earth

"The light is what guides you home; the warmth is what keeps you there."

- Ellie Rodriguez

Love

"Home is where there's one to love."

- Charles Swain

Love

"Where Thou art—that—is Home."

- Emily Dickinson

Love

"Home is where you feel loved, appreciated and safe."

- Tracey Taylor

Love

"A home without books is a body without soul."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Education

"The longest road out is the shortest road home."

- Irish Proverb

Philosophy

"One never reaches home. But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time."

- Hermann Hesse

Philosophy

"Home is not where you live but where they understand you."

- Christian Morgenstern

Connection to Earth

"A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sunroom that brings light into a kitchen."

- Joyce Maynard

Love

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."

- Edith Sitwell

Contentment

"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

Love

"If light is in your heart, you will find your way home."

- Rumi

Inspiration

"When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood."

- Sam Ewing

Nature

"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."

- Chinese Proverb

Love

"Home is the place where we are treated the best but grumble the most."

- Billy Sunday

Love

"If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with."

- Dorothy

Hope

"Home is a place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to."

- John Ed Pearce

Reflection

"Three keys unlock the door to a gracious atmosphere at home: Respect, influence, and forgiveness."

- Michael Cannon Loehrer

Respect

"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself."

- Sam Shepard

Reflection

"There is no place more delightful than one’s own fireside."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Contentment

"Peace, like charity, begins at home."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country."

- Margaret Thatcher

Leadership

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

- E. W. Howe

Adversity

"Home is one's birthplace, ratified by memory."

- Henry Grunwald

Philosophy

"I have a real genius for staying at home."

- Henry David Thoreau

Contentment

"Home wasn’t built in a day."

- Jane Sherwood Ace

Persistence

"Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there."

- Aleksandar Hemon

Connection to Earth

"Let your home be your mast and not your anchor."

- Khalil Gibran

Philosophy

"They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings."

- Emily Dickinson

Philosophy

"A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless."

- May Sarton

Well-being

"I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment."

- Pope John Paul II

Spirituality

"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table."

- Elie Wiesel

Education

"When I go home, its an easy way to be grounded. You learn to realize what truly matters."

- Tony Stewart

Self-awareness

"A man's house is his castle."

- James Otis

Belief

"Home is where one starts from."

- T. S. Eliot

Philosophy

"Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time."

- John Cheever

Adversity

"Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind."

- N.K. Jemisin

Philosophy

"A heart makes a good home for the friend."

- Yunus Emre

Love

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home."

- Matsuo Bashō

Philosophy

"Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home."

- Rachael Ray

Contentment

"How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home."

- William Faulkner

Reflection

"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."

- Edward Coke

Belief

"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."

- Charles M. Schulz

Creativity

"When we root-root-root for the home team, we’re rooting for our home as much as the team."

- Richard Roeper

Connection to Earth

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."

- Confucius

Family

"I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great."

- Isaac Watts

Gratitude

"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

Love

"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."

- Henrik Ibsen

Responsibility

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

- Thomas Fuller

Compassion

"Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best."

- Kin Hubbard

Love

"If home is where the heart is, then may your home be blessed."

- John McLeod

Hope

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

- E. W. Howe

Self-care

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home."

- James A. Michener

Belief

"The sun at home warms better than the sun elsewhere."

- Albanian Proverb

Contentment

"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest."

- Robert Montgomery

Love

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

- Phyllis Diller

Family

"When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself."

- Layne Staley

Reflection

"If you know you're going home, the journey is never too hard."

- Angela Wood

Hope

"Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation—coming home again."

- Madeleine L'Engle

Joy

"Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend."

- Wallace Stegner

Reflection

"At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before."

- Warsan Shire

Hope

"How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home."

- William C. Faulkner

Reflection

"'Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home."

- William Shakespeare

Reflection

"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

- Meister Eckhart

Spirituality

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

- Charles Dickens

Responsibility

"There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights."

- Smedley Butler

Belief

"A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home."

- Rodney Dangerfield

Reflection

"The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life."

- George Bernard Shaw

Reflection

"Home is where my habits have a habitat."

- Fiona Apple

Self-awareness

"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

- Evan Esar

Reflection

"Happiness is a small house, with a big kitchen."

- Alfred Hitchcock

Happiness

"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."

- John le Carré

Reflection

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark."

Family

"Home is where love resides, memories are created, friends and family belong together and laughter never ends."

Love

"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is made with love and dreams."

Love

"A house is made of bricks and beams. A home is made of hopes and dreams."

- Unknown

Love

"Home is not a place, it's a feeling."

- Unknown

Love

"May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends."

Connection to Earth

"Home is where the Wi-Fi connects automatically."

Contentment