home

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
461acad	I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.	home self-love	Elizabeth Gilbert
c3ec1c1	If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.	environment food home kitchen	Michael Pollan
eb97adf	She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.	cleaning home housework relaxation	Jane Smiley
6127008	I create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself.	freedom healing-journey home home-sweet-home personal-safety safe-and-secure safety soul-journey	Maureen Brady
140003f	For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.	cooking environment environmentalism home kitchen	Michael Pollan
044e578	The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird's wing beating, the world seems unreal.	bird despised ever field heart home man prepares pretend reeks run shield shit turn unreal wall wing world	Bernard Cornwell
fb8b276	As I walk behind her down the halls, it happens. I shrink inch by inch until I am no longer an adult, but a baby toddling along in a comically oversized business suit. I have been pretending to be a grown-up this whole time. My briefcase is full of milk: I have been found out. 'This, then, is home. What is home? Is it a sort of lap of location, that exists only if certain conditions are in place? Is it the intersection of rigidity and comfort--a junction of familiartiy that you curl into? Is it a feeling? I don't know, but I'm being hugged hard against it, and I can't tell when I'll be let go.	family home parents parents-and-children	Patricia Lockwood
4469757	The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water and sky and forest, and after a time it occurred to her that she'd lived a life almost entirely indoors. Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls. Her whole life had been locked to geometries: suburban rectangles, city squares. First the house she'd grown up in, then dorms and apartments. The open air had been nothing but a medium of transit, a place for rooms to exist.	growing-up home house indoors lake life nature rooms sky thought	Tim O'Brien
1b2fbde	The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.	faith home	Diana Butler Bass
58e7829	It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn't worked out.	home	Amanda Eyre Ward

461acad

I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

home self-love

Elizabeth Gilbert

c3ec1c1

If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.

environment food home kitchen

Michael Pollan

eb97adf

She always said, 'When I'm home, I've got to get things done, even if there are visitors. Elizabeth knows how to relax in her own house.' And then she would shake her head, as if Elizabeth had remarkable powers.

cleaning home housework relaxation

Jane Smiley

6127008

I create a home that is a safe and nurturing place for me, where I am free to gather myself.

freedom healing-journey home home-sweet-home personal-safety safe-and-secure safety soul-journey

Maureen Brady

140003f

For what is the environmental crisis, if not a crisis of the way we live? The Big Problem is nothing more or less than the sum total of countless little everyday choices, most of them made by us... If the environmental crisis is ultimately a crisis of character, as Wendell Berry told us way back in the 1970's, then sooner or later it will have to be addressed at that level- at home, as it were. In our yards and kitchens and minds.

cooking environment environmentalism home kitchen

Michael Pollan

044e578

The shield wall reeks of shit, and all a man wants is to be home, to be anywhere but on this field that prepares for battle, but none of us will turn and run or else we will be despised for ever. We pretend we want to be there, and when the wall at last advances, step by step, and the heart is thumping fast as a bird's wing beating, the world seems unreal.

bird despised ever field heart home man prepares pretend reeks run shield shit turn unreal wall wing world

Bernard Cornwell

fb8b276

As I walk behind her down the halls, it happens. I shrink inch by inch until I am no longer an adult, but a baby toddling along in a comically oversized business suit. I have been pretending to be a grown-up this whole time. My briefcase is full of milk: I have been found out. 'This, then, is home. What is home? Is it a sort of lap of location, that exists only if certain conditions are in place? Is it the intersection of rigidity and comfort--a junction of familiartiy that you curl into? Is it a feeling? I don't know, but I'm being hugged hard against it, and I can't tell when I'll be let go.

family home parents parents-and-children

Patricia Lockwood

4469757

The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water and sky and forest, and after a time it occurred to her that she'd lived a life almost entirely indoors. Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls. Her whole life had been locked to geometries: suburban rectangles, city squares. First the house she'd grown up in, then dorms and apartments. The open air had been nothing but a medium of transit, a place for rooms to exist.

growing-up home house indoors lake life nature rooms sky thought

Tim O'Brien

1b2fbde

The overarching narrative of the Bible is that of humanity searching for home.

faith home

Diana Butler Bass

58e7829

It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn't worked out.

home

Amanda Eyre Ward