"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

"May your pen happily writes ...™ ©Leah C Dancel

12/9/12

Quotes on HOME



"Christ is the centre of our Home;
a Guest at every meal;
a silent listener to every conversation." ~Anon

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"Your true HOME is in the HERE and the NOW."
~Thich Nhat Hanh~

O Thou who art at home
Deep in my heart
Enable me to join you
Deep in my heart."

~The Talmud~


"From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the wear of winning,
But laughter and the love of friends."~Hilaire Belloc
from The Friendship Book of Francis Gay 1983

"Coming home to peace and quiet.
Coming home to feelings warm.
Coming home where there's a fullness,
where love in me is born.
Coming home's a simple journey,
takes no movement on my part.
Instead of listening to my thoughts.
I listen with my heart." ~Sue Pettit

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MY HOUSE

My house is small
No mansion for a millionaire
But there is room for love
And there is room for friends
That's all I care.

"H is for HOME where we live and laugh and love."

"A glimpse of heaven can be seen through the windows of a happy home." ~Proverbs

"A good laugh is sunshine in a house.." ~William Thackeray

"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 home is a place of relaxation and comfort, highlighted by a mess here and there." ~Mariquita Tandoc

"A home is not complete without a mother." ~Leah C. Dancel, 28 August 2012

"A home should be a distillation of your interests, of who you really are. If you're happy with your life, your space will reflect that." ~Rafael de Cárdenas

"A home without books is a body without soul." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC)

“A home without books is like a tree without birds.” ~from Live Learn Library

"A home without books is truly deprived no matter how elaborate its modern appliances." ~Reader's Digest 1971

"Home is where your favorite memories are." ~Anon
"A house is built of logs and stone,
Of tiles and post and piers;
A home is built of loving deeds
That stand a thousand years." ~Victor Hugo
"A home should be a distillation of your interests, of who you really are. If you're happy with your life, your space will reflect that." ~Rafael de Cárdenas

"A house becomes a home when each room is clothed with peace, each wall is covered with laughter, and each heart is filled with love." ~Anon

"A house becomes a home when your cat moves in." ~Anon

"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams." ~William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body." ~Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"A man's home is his wife's castle." ~Alexander Chase

"A man's homeland is wherever he prospers." ~Aristophanes (450-388BC)

"A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery." ~Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)

"A man is not really a true man until he owns his own home, and they that own their homes are made more honorable and honest and pure, true and economical and careful, by owning the home." ~Russell Conwell

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it." ~George Moore (1852-1933), Irish novelist

“A secret at home is like rocks under tide.” ~Dinah Maria Muloch

"A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home." ~Anon

"A spotless house is the sign of a wasted life." ~Anon

"Anyone can plot a course with a map or compass; but without a sense of who you are, you will never know if you're already home." ~Shannon L. Alder

“Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.” ~+APJ Abdul Kalam

"Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense." ~Amelia Earhart (1897-1939)

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing." ~Phyllis Diller

"Decorating not only improves the look of the home, it also improves the feel of the soul." ~Lacey from Things of Beauty

"Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him." ~Geoffrey Holder

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


"Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest." ~Henry Van Dyke

"Every road I took always end up going home and that's the best road because my family resides in our home , no matter what road I take home is where the heart is and where love resides!" ~Lizzy Oj

"Fortune will always come in to a house with laughter." ~Anon

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

"Good homes are still the best source of good humans." ~Neal A. Maxwell

"Grandma said a small house filled with love is better than a large house where there is none. A cookie shared with a friend is better than two eaten alone. A broken down sofa filled with family and friends is better than an empty throne." ~Mountain Wisdom

"Having a place to go — is a home. Having someone to love — is a family. Having both — is a blessing." ~Donna Hedges

"He is happiest, be he King or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Home is a heart which keep forgiving and loving." ~Gede Prama

“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 is a place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow old wanting to get back to." ~John Ed Pearce

"Home a place your feet may leave but your heart will always be." ~Anon

"Home is a refuge, not only from the world but a refuge from my worries, my terrible concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful, because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up." ~Maya Angelou

"Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms." ~William Bennett (1943-)

"Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved." ~Ann Douglas

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

"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you" ~Christian Morganstern (1871-1914)

"Home is the best place when life begins to wobble." ~Elizabeth von Armin

"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 (1816-1853), English reformer and minister

"Home is the place where nobodies are somebodies and the great of the earth are ordinary people." ~Anon

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." ~Robert Frost (1874-1963)

"Home is to be found "in here," not somewhere "out there" ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Home is where family lives, loves, laughs and your heart never truly leaves." ~www.familyshare.com

"Home is where I work and I work everywhere." ~Alfred Nobel

"Home is where life begins."
~Leah C. Dancel, June 23 , 2021
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"Home is where the heart is." ~Pliny the Elder

"Home is where you hang your head." ~Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

"Home is where you hang your heart." ~Anon

"Home is where we are treated best but grumble the most."~Anon (words from a little picture frame picked up and read by Francis Gay in a Scout Jumble Sale; The Friendship Book 1981)

"Home is where we tie one end of the thread of life." ~Martin Buxbaum (1912-1991)

"Home is where you can say anything you please, because nobody pays any attention to you anyway." ~Joe Moore

"Home is wherever and whenever I say yes to my soul." ~S.C. Lourie

"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

"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." ~Lyda M. Child

"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 Dressen

"Homecoming means coming home to what is in your heart." ~Anon

"How is it possible that the most intellectual creature to ever walk the planet Earth is destroying its only home?" ~Jane Goodall

"I believe our problems, almost every one, arise out of the homes of the people. If there is to be reformation, if there is to be a change, if there is to be a return to old and sacred values, it must begin in the home. It is here that truth is learned, that integrity, is cultivated, that self-discipline is instilled, and that love is nurtured." ~Gordon B. Hinckley (1910-2008)

"I literally love being at home. In my own space. Comfortable. Not surrounded by people." ~Lessons Learned in Life

"I live quietly at home among my family and friends." ~Antonio Tabucchi

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

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that." ~Adam Sandler

"I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that." ~Dolly Parton (1946-)

"If a traditional home is one that is filled with lots of love and poop jokes, then I have a very traditional family." ~Sandra Bullock

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

“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.” ~Peter Buffett

"It's beautiful to watch a baby in a home where they are surrounded by love begin to develop and grow. The ability of that precious little one to have no fear and know that whatever happens arms of love and compassion keep them safe and secure as they struggle through the challenges of growth is a Beautiful thing to behold." ~Bob Hildreth

"It's not how big the how is, it's how HAPPY the home is." ~Anon

"It's not the size of your house that makes a home, it's the size of your heart." ~Jane Lee Logan

"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

"It might be easier to find your way home on a lighted pathway, but life is so much grander when you can light that way for someone else." ~Robert Clancy

"It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.” ~Elizabeth Edwards

"It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home." ~Anon

"It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow." ~Washington Irving (1783-1859)

“Life is one thing after another and its actually more pleasant to be able to go home with someone you like to spend time with in order to get with it." ~Tom Hanks

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...but how much love we put in that action." ~Mother Teresa (1910-1997), world humanitarian and founder of the Missionaries of Charity

"LOVE overflows and joy never ends in a HOME blessed with family and friends." ~Anon

"May our little homes be our little  gardens of peace and rest." ~Hedda Tady,

"May your home always be too small to hold all our friends." ~Myrtle Reed

"May your home be a place where friends meet, family gathers and love grows." ~Anon

"Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you're at your worst." ~Live Life Happy

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam; Be it ever so humble there's no place like home!" ~John Howard Payne (1791-1852)

"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going." ~Phyllies Diller (1917 -)

"My dirty little secret is that my home is consistently clean." ~Anon

"My home is not a place, it is people." ~Lois McMaster Bujold (1949)



October 7, 2018
"My home is warm and full of love." ~Leah C. Dancel, 10 October 2014

"No Amount of success can compensate a broken home." ~Fahdel Gandamra Pimping

"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 (1940-1996)

"No other success in life can compensate for failure in the home." ~David O. McKay (1873-1970)

"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love." ~Billy Graham (1918-)

"Our inner home is a place of beauty, "hurled through with birds and deep/with the winds of homecoming" ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Out of the dreariness,
Into its cheeriness,
Come we in weariness,
Home.
~Stephen Chalmers

"Peace—that was the other name for home." ~Kathleen Norris

"Some folks make you feel at home. Others make you wish you were." ~Arnold Glasgow

"Space is the home of the awakened mind." ~Buddha

"Take the time to come home to yourself every day." ~Robin Casarjean

"The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God's own method of training the young." ~I Love My Family

"The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tyres." ~Dorothy Parker

 "The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness. You can be the sunshine for another person. You can’t offer happiness until you have it for yourself. So build a home inside by accepting yourself and learning to love and heal yourself." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"The home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out. [It is]... the single most influential force in our earthly existence. No price tag can adequately reflect its value. No gauge can measure its ultimate influence ... for good or ill. It is at home, among family members that we come to terms with circumstances. It is here life makes up its mind." ~Chuck Swindoll (1934-)

"The house protects the dreamer." ~Frances, Under The Tuscan Sun

"The light is what guides you home, the warmth is what keeps you there." ~Ellie Rodriguez

"The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes." ~Harold B. Lee (1899-1873)

"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home." ~William Temple

"The only way to have a home is to make a home. Spend time in it. Invest your energy. Be here." ~Brooke Berman

"The real change of our society begins in our homes, let us teach our sons and daughters the real sense of fellowship!" ~Anon

"The school will teach children how to read, but the environment of the home must teach them what to read. The school can teach them how to think, but the home must teach them what to believe." ~Charles A. Wells

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home." ~Confucius (551BC-479BC)

"The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God." ~Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1855)

"The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies." ~Anon

"The world is a much better place because of you. You are our home and our light." ~Mhiel Dancel

“The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours.” ~Lady Hasluck on Housework

"Then there's the sacred part of me that remembers the pain, but waits with a hopeful, open heart for love to remember its way home." ~Jody Doty

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort." ~Jane Austen (1775-1817)

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

"This planet is my home. I take loving care of it and all the living creatures upon it." ~Louise L. Hay

"This was a happiness whose other name was home." ~Roger Cohen

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition." ~Samuel Johnson

"To feel at home, stay at home." ~Clifton Fadiman (1904-1999)

"We always need to remember anywhere is home if there is love inside." ~Wendy Lucas

"We are here to love all life and attain wisdom. Then we return home." ~A.D. Williams

"What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart." ~Orison Swett Marden

"What we all seek is a sense that we’ve come home." ~Rainer Maria Rilke

"When we travel far, we come home here and clean self." ~Nonobert Malit (Lifted from Becoming Filipino)

"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 (1897-1975)

"When you feel lost, pause and look closely around you. Somewhere, somehow an Angel will be waiting to guide you home." ~Anon

"Where thou art - that - is home." ~Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave. but not our hearts." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1841-1935)

“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

"Within this home
May love abide,
To warm all friends
Who step inside." 
~Anon


"You are the road of love and at the end my home." ~Rumi

"You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right." ~Maya Angelou (1928-)

"You can never lose your way, for your LIGHT will always guide you back home." ~Shari Alyse

"You see much more of your children once they leave home." ~Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

"Your home should be an authentic expression of who you are, who you hope to become, and it should honor your roots because they have made you exactly who you are today." ~Holly Becker

"Your real home isn't the house you live in. It's the stillness and peace in your heart." ~Ahjahn Brahm

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Related Quotes

"A warrior's strength is measured by the size of her heart. She is respectfully humble, she will stand with honor, she will fight with love. In the face of adversity and for the ones she loves, she will be a voice and a shield. She will be a beacon to light the way home for the old. She will gently make way for the young. She is a Sister, Mother, Daughter, Grandmother...She is a Warrior." ~Anon

"Build your house where the snake sits to warm itself." ~Saint Seraphim of Sarov

"FAMILY..the best reason why I love to be at home." ~Heart Prints of LIFE

"House is a delightful museum." ~Central NSW Discover/Bathurst Magazine

“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.” ~Anon

"Leave the house wearing a smile every morning, otherwise you're only half-dressed." ~Anon

"Live with one foot raised and make the world your house." ~St. Ignatius of Loyola

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ~Joan Crawford

"Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home, and enables me to enjoy it better." ~Thoreau

"Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home." ~Eckhart Tolle

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” ~Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

"The light of my own soul is there, always waiting in the quiet for me to come home. A peaceful comfort of truth, honesty and grace." ~Robin Korth

"The woman who creates and sustains a home, and under whose hands children grow up to be strong and pure men and women, is a creator second only to God." ~Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1855)

"We see the mind like a house, so if your house is on fire, you need to take care of the fire, not to go look for the person that made the fire. Take care of those emotions first; it’s the priority. Because anything that comes from a place of fear and anxiety and anger will only make the fire worse. Come back and find a place of calm and peace to cool the flame of emotion down." ~Phap Dung, Buddhist Monk

"Where your heart goes your feet will most certainly follow, but more importantly, your soul will find a home." ~Robert Clancy

"Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house." ~Anon

VERSE

"My heart is my home
I am it's keeper
The king of my pleasure dome

All who dwell there
Are by invite only
And eternally in my care !"
~Shadowlands, My Pleasure Dome

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My house isn't fancy,
I don't have a lot of money,
I've struggled for everything I have,
But I'm grateful for God's love,
My loving family and true friends."
~Lessons Learned in Life

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