Way Home Quotes

• We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Thinking, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.52, New World Library

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• I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

  Bob Dylan

  Home, Long, Way

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• Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.

  Colin Wilson

  Home, Way, Exile

  Colin Wilson (1982). “The Outsider”, Tarcher

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• If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Home, Heart

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• I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.

  Kelly Preston

  Home, Way, Lost

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• By letting go, you allow everything to find it's rightful place. Once free, everything finds its way home.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Letting Go, Home

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• Love doesn't hide. It stays and fights. It goes the distance, that's why love is so strong. So it can carry you all the way home.

  Pietro Aretino

  Strong, Distance, Home

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• I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.

  Mary Oliver

  Travel, Home, Way

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.329, GENERAL PRESS

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• On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

  Joe Orton

  Home, Waiting, Way

  "The Orton Diaries". Edited by John Lahr, p. 137, 1986.

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• We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine?

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Home, Land

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I love every minute in the kitchen with my kids, even the mess (I've learned to embrace it!). I find that in the car on the way home from school, I often get one-word answers when I ask about their day. But when we're cooking, I get in-depth stories.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• memory is the only way home.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Memories, Home, Way

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.4, Vintage

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• Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Waiting, Want

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• But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Home, Way, My Family

  Caroline B. Cooney (2008). “What Janie Found”, p.181, Laurel Leaf

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• Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Integrity, Home, Listening

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• I know this world is far from perfect. I am not the type to mistake a streetlight for the moon. I know our wounds are deep as the Atlantic. But every ocean has a shoreline and every shoreline has a tide that is constantly returning to wake the songbirds in our hands, to wake the music in our bones, to place one fearless kiss on the mouth of that new born river that has to run through the center of our hearts to find its way home.

  Andrea Gibson

  Running, Mistake, Ocean

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• If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Home, Support You, Accountability

  graf Leo Tolstoy (2006). “Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings”

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• Now Listen You know I work so hard, all day long Everything I try to do, Seem to always turn out wrong That's why I wanna stop by on my way home and say Let's go get stoned

  Ray Charles

  Weed, Home, Long

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• The great gift of a spiritual path is coming to trust that you can find a way to true refuge. You realize that you can start right where you are, in the midst of your life, and find peace in any circumstance. Even at those moments when the ground shakes terribly beneath you—when there’s a loss that will alter your life forever—you can still trust that you will find your way home. This is possible because you’ve touched the timeless love and awareness that are intrinsic to who you are.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Home, Loss

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• If you weaken, I'll be strong. If you get lost, I'll be your way home. If you despair, I'll bring you joy. I will love you until the end of time.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Strong, Love You, Home

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.164, Delacorte Press

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• [Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone. I'll call him if you both explode in a flash of black underwear and money so I won't have to fly all the way home.

  Kim Harrison

  Encouragement, Home, Thinking

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• For the first time in weeks, Park didn't have that anxious feeling in his stomach on the way home from school, like he had to soak up enough Eleanor to keep him until the next day.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Home, School, Next Day

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.121, Macmillan

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• You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

  Ridley Scott

  Real, Home, Arrows

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I quite clearly remember driving home at 9 a.m., after shooting all day, in a bathrobe, with bodypaint all over my face, and going through McDonald's drive-thru. I ordered a coffee to make sure I didn't crash on the way home. And the girl working there, she didn't even bat an eyelid. I guess it's a regular thing down in Hastings [Australia] McDonald's.

  Gotye

  Girl, Coffee, Home

  "Gotye Braces For Stateside Success With 'Somebody That I Used To Know'". Interview with James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. February 9, 2012.

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