Sam Keen Quotes

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

Israel is the country of my birth. When I come here, I feel I'm coming home.

France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

When you focus with soul eyes, / You will see home in many, many places.

I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.

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

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

I love my nice things, but I'm still the Welsh family girl.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.

I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I feel myself, I feel connected.

I love Vancouver. I can be with my family, I can reconnect with the guys. It will always be my home.

New York is in my DNA.

I am a rootless individual, but when I land in Belize, I have that feeling of comfort that I am returning home.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

Some of my songs are about the feeling you belong somewhere else. But there's also something grounding about coming from a small town.

I love Perth. It is my home, and no matter where I am in the world, Perth is where my heart is.