It’s Good to be Home Again ♥ Quotes to Inspire

Life takes you to unexpected places. Love brings you back home.

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I just got home this week from Greece and my Europe travels. I was gone 6 weeks and being back feels great. At the airport, when I was going through the passport check points at JFK, it put a huge smile on my face. I was cheesing. For 3 reasons mainly; 1. I get to see hubby soon.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

— Helen Rowland

Number 2. Yesssss I’m in the citizen’s line, which is somehow almost always so much quicker. Just 4 people ahead and one let me go before him. Score! I love America. And 3. I get to use my laundry + washer. A process that took nearly 5 hours in Greece and that’s not including dry time. Yes #3 really amped me for laundry duty. Is this being a grown-up?!

Every traveler has a home of his own and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

— Charles Dickens

While the climate in NYC is opposite of t-shirt weather. The transition between winter to spring isn’t always the easiest in New York and seasonal depression is real. The weather is somewhere between rain, strong winds, and a bit of sunshine. Good thing we have lot’s of great restaurant options in Manhattan.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
― Edith Sitwell

Greece was magnificent in so many ways, the atmosphere to the culture. I will be back way more often as Greece has a piece of my heart now.

Here in NYC, I find myself walking and taking in the streets again. The buildings and architecture once again fascinate me, they always have — I’m just observing them with a fresher pair of eyes. Also, I can’t wait to catch up with all my friends here. But being honest with myself — and you. I’ve also dealt with some culture shock. The literal definition of that is “the feeling of disorientation experienced by someone who is suddenly subjected to an unfamiliar culture, way of life, or set of attitudes.” I wouldn’t say this is all unfamiliar, it’s just very fast paced. I’ve had moments where I weave in and out of happiness. Find myself sinking. This is strange to me, because my experience was so wonderful. I loved every single day of my trip. Growth came in many forms. And I’m accepting this is one as well…

Here are a list of quotes about being home that resinate with me ↓

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
― Lauren Myracle

Don’t we all ツ 

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

I think this is beautiful in many ways. Home is a feeling as much as a physical location. It could be with a person or place. Home is where you can go to, no matter what, and feel accepted.

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more. 
― Robin Hobb, Fool’s Fate

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

Greece is that for me in some ways now ♥

Wishing you a blessed home doosts!