Your home is your refuge.
When I dig back through memory cells, I get one particularly distinctive feeling-and that's one of warmth, comfort and well-being. For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find-I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me.
Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.
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
A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.
The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.
It is the place of renewal and of safety, where for a little while there will be no harm or attack and, while every sense is nourished, the soul rests.
School was my sanctuary.
I could never leave my home.... It inspires me a lot.
Home is the place you can go when you're whipped.
Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.
Home is where you come to when you've got nothing better to do.
Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
Home is your sanctuary.
My family is my sanctuary.
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
I love my shed. It's my space and my mess - and I know where everything is.
My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.
The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.
