Home could mean a person, a place, a state of mind, or peace inside. For me? Home is but a room in the heart. And it’s only through love that you can ever truly feel at home. Read these quotes about home if you think so too. Take what you love, and decorate your soul with it.

When there’s love in the home, there’s joy in the heart. When there’s joy in the heart, there’s love in the home.

30 Heartfelt Quotes about Home

1. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.” – George Moore

2. “A home is a kingdom of its own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life’s storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

3. “Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.” – Frederick Buechner

4. “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.” – Jane Austen

5. “The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.” – Wendy Wunder

6. “Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.” – Robert Montgomery

7. “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.” – Dalai Lama

8. “We carry our homes within us, which enables us to fly.” – John Cage

9. “Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.” – Marvin J. Ashton

10. “Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.” – Billy Graham

11. “Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we’re not being who our soul wants to be and we’re someplace where our soul doesn’t feel at home.” – Melody Beattie

12. “Home is wherever you leave everything you love and never question that it will be there when you return.” – Leo Christopher

13. “Being happy at home is the end of all ambition.” – Samuel Johnson

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

15. “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.” – Confucius

16. “Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old remembered joy.” – Henry Ward Beecher

17. “The home should be the treasure chest of living.” – Le Corbusier

18. “Home is the nicest word there is.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

19. “A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.” – Unknown (possibly from Dalai Lama XIV)

20. “It’s not about how big the house is. It’s how happy the home is.” – Unknown

21. “He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

22. “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

23. “I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.” – Cecelia Ahearn

24. “A good home must be made, not bought.” – Joyce Maynard

25. “Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

26. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

27. “He traveled in order to come home.” – William Trevor

28. “When I was at home, I was in a better place.” – William Shakespeare

29. “The prospect of going home is very appealing.” – David Ginola

30. “There is beauty all around, when there’s love at home.” – John H. McNaughton

Tell me:

Which of these quotes about home is your favorite?

Tell me in the comments. I read every single one, and I’d love to know!

With love,

Jen

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