"A home is a place in time...." - Quote by David Viscott
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.
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“It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.”
“No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.”
“There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.”
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“I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!”
“All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River”
“No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.”
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“For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.”
“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
“If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.”