John Cage Quotes

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

I was on the beach, and I was just thinking to myself that I have no one place where I actually feel like I'm at home. I came up with the idea of having no roots - never being grounded to a certain place but having your home with people who you love.

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

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

I am my own home, and my handkerchief is my flag.

Anywhere I hang my heart is home... it's just the closet that keeps moving.

Home is wherever I go.

Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.

When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.

Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or it's more accurate to say I think a more general truth exists beneath it: the place you first call home stays with you always, whether you remain or go.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

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

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

I never expected to run into a room and suddenly I belonged. I figured people who live on the fringes of society, they're more free. They can choose to visit anywhere; they don't belong to anywhere. It's like being without a nation, in a way.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

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

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

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

I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.