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““And where is home? Is it where we begin or where we end up? Is it where we long to be or where life puts us to make good use of our gifts?””

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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.

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The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.

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Perhaps the hardest thing I've learned, and still struggle with, is that I don't have to be finished in order to be whole.

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A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

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No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

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“Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living…

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The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.

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Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on…

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I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my…

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“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.”

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If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

Sophie Kinsella

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Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient.

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If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding…

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.…

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As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls…

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Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's…

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