"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
"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