The Need for Home

Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A [person] travels the world over in search of what he [or she] needs
and returns home to find it.
- George A. Moore

A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous

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

Where we love is home -
home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Home is where the heart is.
- Pliny the Elder

Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Grow Your Own Happiness

Making a Great Marriage

Give of Yourself

Making a Great Family
    

Respect Yourself - Make Your Own Choices

Unless someone truly has the power to say no,
they never truly have the power to say yes.
- Dan Millman

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

To free us from the expectations of others,
to give us back to ourselves -
there lies the great singular power of self-respect.
- Joan Didion

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity
is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
- Thomas S. Monson

Today's affirmation:
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: At the Center of Your Being

Your Own Trail

Make Your Own Choices

Personal Boundaries
    

Returning Home

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

A house is made of walls and beams;
a home is built with love and dreams.
- Anonymous

Home is where the heart is.
- Pliny the Elder

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

Where we love is home -
home that our feet may leave,
but not our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Home is where our loved ones are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Home is our sanctuary, where we:
relax into being ourselves,
play with our inner child,
paint the walls green and pink,
dig in the dirt,
grow something,
love somebody else,
love ourselves even more,
snuggle with a warm blanket on a Sunday afternoon,
hang "go away" on the door whenever we want,
clean and tidy often... or never,
launch from and return to,
are truly ourselves.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Joy at Home

Marriage

Giving of Yourself

Family
    

Value Your Self Respect

Unless someone truly has the power to say no,
they never truly have the power to say yes.
- Dan Millman

To free us from the expectations of others,
to give us back to ourselves -
there lies the great singular power of self-respect.
- Joan Didion

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity
is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
- Thomas S. Monson

Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today's affirmation:
I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: At the Center of Your Being

Make Your Own Choices

Your Own Trail

Personal Boundaries
    

Conquer Ourselves

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

I believe that anyone can conquer fear
by doing the things he fears to do,
provided he keeps doing them until he gets
a record of successful experience behind him.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you,
not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
- The Buddha

Further reading: Pleasing Everyone

Play to win, but be a good loser

Over 30 and Not Married

Conquer Quotes

Fear Quotes

Victory Quotes

Ourselves Quotes

Mountain Quotes

Daily Inspiration