“We must get home! How could we stray like this?
So far from home, we know not where it is,
Only in some fair, apple-blossomy place
Of children's faces--and the mother's face
We dimly dream it, till the vision clears”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley
“Yet there was something noble in the way Gertie presided over her home town, surrounded by people to whom she’d made herself useful, like the now-grown children who once rode her school bus, or the neighbor woman she took to Walmart every other week for quilt fabric.”
Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
“In his book, Who’s Your City, the demographic Richard Florida divides people into three categories: the mobile, the stuck, and the rooted. We tend to focus on the first two—the mobile, who can pick up and move to opportunity—and the stuck, who lack the resources to leave where they are…but we cannot forget about the rooted: those who have the means and opportunity to move, but choose to stay…because they’re content where they are.”
Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
“Our experience of the place where we live depends entirely on who we are, how we interact with it, and how we interpret what’s happening around us. We create our places every day by how we choose to view them…we must forcefully insist on seeing a place’s charms.”
Source: This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live
“For she had learned long ago that when a home was not found it was forged. Indeed it could be fashioned even from nothing”
Source: This Woven Kingdom
“Home is the first point of investment. The first and most important thing to invest in is your home. Make sure your house is in good condition physically and energetically, make sure you’re paid up on the household bills, make sure you’re stocked up on supplies and food, make sure your home is furnished to your style and comfort, make sure you’ve got nice plants to clean the air, nice art, nice crystals and essential oils, nice things that promote your wellbeing…. Make sure your garden is growing nutritious plants. Invest in your household and your family because they have the greatest Return on Investment. And your investment in your home will be a magnet for many other different kinds of investments.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“You make everything else quiet. Everything else disappears when I look at you.”
Source: Tired Tired Sea
“And the more I learn, the farther I feel. I don’t know where home is anymore.”
Source: Raybearer
“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a
long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“If i change my mind, can i come back here? ...
If i came back, it would still be a place,
but it wouldn't be home any longer.”
Source: The Graveyard Book