A home is a place in time. And no place stays the same after you finally grow up and leave it. No place can ever change as much as the person who grows up there.
Interpretation
Home is deeply connected to personal growth and change.
David Viscott's quote highlights that a home is not merely a physical space; it holds memories and experiences that shape us. As we grow and change, our perception of home evolves, reflecting the changes within ourselves rather than just alterations in the physical environment.
In practice
In a speech about personal development, you could say, 'Just like Viscott noted, a home is a place in time that reflects our growth.'
Why do so many of us not give ourselves permission to be alive until we are absolutely assured that we will die? ...If we are not in [this present millisecond of life and conscious experience], we are not alive; we are merely thinking our lives. Yet we have seen so many die, looking back over their shoulders at their lives, shaking their heads and muttering in bewilderment, "What was that all about?"
You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.
A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?
No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.
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