Snapshot: Home

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. 

 ~Charles Dickens

It takes hands to build a house, 

but only hearts can build a home. 

 ~Author Unknown

Home is a place not only of strong affections, 

but of entire unreserve; 

it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, 

its dressing room. 

 ~Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

 ~William J. Bennett

Every house where love abides 

And friendship is a guest, 

Is surely home, 

and home sweet home 

For there the heart can rest. 

~Henry Van Dyke

Home is where you can say anything you like 

cause nobody listens to you anyway. 

 ~Author Unknown

Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. 

 Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace. 

 ~Vernon Baker

Home is not where you live 

but where they understand you. 

 ~Christian Morgenstern

He is the happiest, 

be he king or peasant, 

who finds peace in his home. 

 ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. 

 It is the place of confidence. 

 It is the place where we tear off that mask of guarded and suspicious coldness 

which the world forces us to wear in self-defense, 

and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. 

 It is the spot where expressions of tenderness gush out 

without any sensation of awkwardness 

and without any dread of ridicule. 

 ~Frederick W. Robertson

Peace - that was the other name for home. 

 ~Kathleen Norris