25 Beautiful Home Quotes That Prove There Is No Place Like It

Even when we’re very young we realize that our home is not just any house. That’s because our home gives us a sense of belonging and a house is just a building with the potential of giving someone such a feeling.

Fancy or modest, your home is a place where you feel safe and cozy. A place where you can forget about your daily problems – a quiet oasis where you can recharge your batteries. And more importantly, your home is where your dearest ones await for you.

It’s only through peace and love that you can truly feel at home. Some are lucky enough to have always had a proper household, and some have to create one themselves. If you’d rather be at work or anywhere else, maybe your house is not a home. Don’t be afraid to move out and find or build your sanctuary.

Never stop seeking for that place that will provide security and comfort; where you can be yourself and create happy memories. And if you’ve already found it, cherish it!

Here are 25 home quotes that reveal its true meaning:

There is no place like home.

L. FRANK BAUM​​

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (more Benjamin Franklin quotes)

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

MAYA ANGELOU (more Maya Angelou quotes)

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

JANE AUSTEN (more Jane Austen quotes)

Love begins at home.

MOTHER TERESA (more Mother Teresa quotes)

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

ROBERT FROST

At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.

WARSAN SHIRE

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

GEORGE A. MOORE

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

JAMES BALDWIN

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

BILLY GRAHAM

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realized what’s changed is you.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (more F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes)

Home isn’t where you’re from, it’s where you find light when all grows dark.

PIERCE BROWN

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

HENNING MANKELL

The longest road out is the shortest road home.

IRISH PROVERB

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SR.

Your home is living space, not storage space.

FRANCINE JAY

Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

CECELIA AHERN

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

What I love most about my home is who I share it with.

TAD CARPENTER

Home is a shelter from storms-all sorts of storms.

WILLIAM J. BENNETT

A home should be a stockade, a refuge from the flaming arrows of anxiety, tension and worry.***

WILFRED PETERSON

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

DALAI LAMA (more Dalai Lama quotes)

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

OPRAH WINFREY

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. 

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Peace, like charity, begins at home.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT