Quote for Today: Lloyd Jones
I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value …
Quote for Today: Alain de Botton
We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our …
Quote for Today: Jacob Nordby
The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality and other forbidden, dangerous things. You have longed for it all your …
Quote for Today: William Kittredge
How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn’t seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost …
Quote for Today: Karen Maitland
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the …
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter …
Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a …
Quote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have …
Quote for Today: Ian Fleming
– In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart …
Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don’t have to do anything but trust the …