Verlyn Klinkenborg Quotes

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

A lot of people get home from work and sink into a good chair, the place in their life where they feel most comfortable. I get that comfort in space, the place where I most feel like I belong.

Home is anywhere I hang my hair

My home is such a powerfully imaginative place that the space is almost irrelevant. I think the house I live at on the Hudson is where I belong because it's the only place where I am that I never think about when I'm leaving.

We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.

No matter how nice a hotel is, it's not home.

I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself.

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home.

I'm attached to my land in Pantelleria as if I'd inherited it. Acting is my job, Pantelleria is my home.

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

Everywhere else, we are someone else, but at home, we remove our masks.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.

Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.

I feel like wherever I go, I will make it home.

It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.

You have to know that your real home is within.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

I had many years where I just worked from film to film to film. And then all of a sudden I went: "Where did I put my bags down? Where's my little place I call home?"

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness