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Quotes about home
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. (Bedi Kabir)
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. (Bedi Kabir)
Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need. (Bedi Kabir)
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. (Bedi Kabir)
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Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. (Bedi Kabir)
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne. (Bedi Kabir)
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail -- its roof may shake -- the wind may blow through it -- the storm may enter -- the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter! -- all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! (Bedi Kabir)
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. (Bedi Kabir)
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. (Bedi Kabir)
Going home must be like going to render an account. (Bedi Kabir)
A house is a machine for living in. (Bedi Kabir)
Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does. (Bedi Kabir)
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. (Bedi Kabir)
Where thou art, that is home. (Bedi Kabir)
Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends. (Bedi Kabir)
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. (Bedi Kabir)
Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence. (Bedi Kabir)
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. (Bedi Kabir)
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. (Bedi Kabir)
Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home. (Bedi Kabir)
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. (Bedi Kabir)
The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home. (Bedi Kabir)
The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. (Bedi Kabir)
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house. (Bedi Kabir)
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence. (Bedi Kabir)
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