Quotes on Leaving Home

The heavy is the root of the light. The unmoved is the source of all movement. Thus the Master travels all day without leaving home. However splendid the views, she stays serenely in herself. Why should the lord of the country flit about like a fool? If you let yourself be blown to and fro, you lose touch with your root. If you let restlessness move you, you lose touch with who you are.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.