Coming Home Quotes

• Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.

  Katrina Kenison

  Home, Journey, Versions

  Katrina Kenison (2013). “Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment”, p.152, Hachette UK

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• I'm ready to accept the challenge. I'm coming home.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Home, Challenges

  "LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2014.

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• There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

  Ronald Reagan

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Kiron K. Skinner, Ronald Reagan, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (2004). “Reagan: A Life In Letters”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Travel, Home, Get Away

  Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.23, Algonquin Books

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Whatever is happening, whatever is changing, whatever is going or not going according to my plans - I release my hold on all of it. I leave behind who I think I am, who I want to be, what I want the world to be. I come home to the great peace of the present moment.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Home, Thinking, World

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• The thrill of coming home has never changed.

  Guy Pearce

  Home, Thrill, Changed

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• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.273, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Home, Being In Love, Desire

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• The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don't. But, in the end, they're the people you always come home to. Sometimes it's the family you're born into and sometimes it's the one you make for yourself.

  Candice Bergen

  Home, Things In Life, People

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

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Home, Vacation, Going Away

  Madeleine L'Engle (1960). “Meet the Austins”, Laurel Leaf

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• Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Marriage, Sorry

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• Nobody has seen the trekking birds take their way towards such warmer spheres as do not exist, or rivers break their course through rocks and plains to run into an ocean which is not to be found. For God does not create a longing or a hope without having a fulfilling reality ready for them. But our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Ocean, Blessed

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard”, p.10, Vintage

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• There's something that happens to you when you come back to your hometown.

  Joseph Dougherty

  Hype, Hometown, Accusation

  "‘Pretty Little Liars’ EP Explains How Spencer and Caleb Ended up Together, Teases What’s Down Sara’s Ladder". Interview with Reid Nakamura, www.thewrap.com. February 16, 2016.

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

  Margaret Mead

  Life, Relationship, Family

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• Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one who you've been waiting for.

  Byron Katie

  Home, Bad Ass, Waiting

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• Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Home, Half, Pleasant

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• Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Real, Home, Self

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• If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home.

  Ridley Scott

  Home, Cows, Theater

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• How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
  And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

  John Prine

  Morning, Home, Evening

  Song: Angel from Montgomery

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

  Sam Ewing

  Home, Childhood, Fatherhood

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

  Jane Austen

  Family, Happiness, Stay Strong

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.381, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

  Tom Bodett

  Home, Differences, Leaving

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• I like having a woman. I like having someone to come home to, to make all of the hard work feel worth it. I need someone with me. And I want someone.

  Neil Diamond

  Hard Work, Home, Needs

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• Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

  John Burroughs

  Home, Stranger, Traveler

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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