Anne Lamott Quotes

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

I like the idea of being warm and secure. That's what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

Love means home. It's where you're meant to be.

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.

She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home.

We have no home, she told me. I am your home.

Home. It's such a simple word, one I never knew would come to mean as much to me as it has. It once was my dad's house, then my uncle's farm. Mostly it's meant wherever Charlie and I were together. Now, though, it's you. It's your letters, your words. They're the place I go to with my fears, where I find comfort, where I feel safe.

Home's the most excellent place of all.

There is no place like home.

We were always surrounded by people who knew us very well and cared about us.

By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

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

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

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.

When I write, my goal is to delve deeply enough into the human experience to find a sort of universality. Once you dig down underneath surface differences, we are all human beings. And all human beings want essentially the same things at our core. We want to love and be loved. We want to be safe. We want our loved ones to be safe.

Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

Family makes a house a home.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

I need to go where I feel loved.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

Family is extremely important, and home is wherever they're waiting for you. No matter where you are, if you have great support, that's all that matters.