The Treasure Chest of Living

 The home should be the treasure chest of living.
– Le Corbusier

 Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
– Charles Dickens

Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell …
– Marvin J. Ashton

Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home.
There are so many young people who are homeless.
They may have a building to live in,
but they are homeless in their hearts.
That is why the most important practice
of our time is to give each person a home.
– Thich Nhat Hanh

Home is any four walls that enclose the right people. 
– Helen Rowland

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home.
– Rumi, (Jalal Al-Din Rumi, 1207 – 1273)

 One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
– Margaret Mead

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts
are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the
head and heart?
– Orison Swett Marden

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
–  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars,
I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest
outside, as I do another corner in my soul.
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne, 1533 – 1592

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home…
– John Howard Payne

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs,
and returns home to find it.
– George Moore

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Please check out this recent interview with Newsweek
about my latest book In Search of Elsewhere.
https://www.newsweek.com/2021/02/05/steve-mccurrys-search-elsewhere-40-years-unseen-images-1563182.html

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