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Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie

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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

—Vernon Howard

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Many of us have no long-range vision in much of our struggle. We think only of the moment, this time, this place, this circumstance. But think of the ten generations of children that inherit love, and their children, and theirs. … Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?

—Stephen Covey

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Some people think that a place can save them. Like if they could just be somewhere else, their lives would be totally different. They could finally be the people they always wanted to be. But to me, a place is just a place. If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.

—Hannah Harrington in Saving June

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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

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Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

—Paulette Bates Alden

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Traveling is all very well and good as long as you know there is a place or person you can call home.

—Jodi Picoult in Mercy

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Photographer Yousuf Karsh and his wife were having lunch with astronaut Neil Armstrong after a photo session. Armstrong politely questioned the couple about the many different countries they had visited. "But, Mr. Armstrong," protested Mrs. Karsh, "you've walked on the moon. We want to hear about your travels."
"But that's the only place I've ever been," replied Armstrong apologetically.

—The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

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California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.

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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.

—Henny Youngman

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You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

—Shannon L. Alder

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To explain why we become attached to our birthplaces, we pretend that we are trees and speak of "roots." Look under your feet. You will not find gnarled growths sprouting through the soles. Roots, I sometimes think, are a conservative myth, designed to keep us in our places.

—Salman Rushdie

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

—Blaise Pascal

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I'd finally found a place―and maybe even some people―worth holding on to.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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A place for everything, everything in its place.

—Benjamin Franklin

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