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“From the first day I met her, she was the only woman to me. Every day of that voyage I loved her more, and many a time since have I kneeled down in the darkness of the night watch and kissed the deck of that ship because I knew her dear feet had trod it. She was never engaged to me. She treated me as fairly as ever a woman treated a man. I have no complaint to make. It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“There are places in this world often believed to be empty, such as old homes or the sea, but the people who believe this are wrong. It is precisely because of what fills these places right up to the brim that we are drawn to them, and it鈥檚 for these very same reasons that we fear them.”
― Corinne Beenfield, The Ocean's Daughter :

“If we are looking for alternative visions of American life in the decades following the Civil War, Homes, James, Peirce, and Dewey are not the figures we would turn to. 聽This has something to do, no doubt with their temperaments and their politics, but it is also a consequence of their attitude toward ideas.
What was that attitude? 聽If we strain out the difference, personal and philosophical, they had with one another, we can say that what these four thinkers had in common was not a group of ideas, but a single idea -- an idea about ideas. 聽They all believed that ideas are not "out there" waiting to be discovered, but are tools -- like forks and knives and microchips -- that people devise to cope with the world in which they find themselves. 聽They believed that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals -- that ideas are social. 聽They believed that ideas do not develop according to some inner logic of their own, but are entirely dependent, like germs, on their human carriers and the environment. 聽And they believed that since ideas are provisional responses to particular and unreproducible circumstances, their survival depends not on their immutability but on their adaptability.”
― Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America

“I am armed with a tenacious conviction that somehow the presence of the people who live in a home reside in the atmosphere of the walls forever.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Mozart's Starling

“What if the problem isn't that we don't own enough stuff or aren't managing our stuff well enough? What if the problem is that we're living in the homes that advertisers and retailers want us to have instead of the homes that deep down we really want and need?”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“...research has found that 80% of potential home buyers decide whether or not a home is right for them as soon as they walk in.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“We want to truly love, appreciate, and use our homes. We don't want to put a bandaid on something we hate, no matter how cute and budget-friendly that bandaid may be.”
― Myquillyn Smith, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful

“Maybe you've moved too many times, or maybe you wish a move were in your future. Maybe you are renting and wish you weren't; maybe you are upside-down in a mortgage you don't want and can't move. Maybe you love where you are but feel like you aren't doing it justice with your decorating skills, Maybe you are waiting on that next house so you can finally start enjoying where you are.
The dream house isn't the answer.
The answer is a gift in disguise.”
― Myquillyn Smith, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful

“... I've figured out what most often holds us back from creating a beautiful, meaningful home on purpose.
It's not money.
It's not lack of creativity.
It's not that we don't have the time.
It's not that someone else is stopping us.
All those things come into play. But what is our biggest hurdle?
Fear.
We put off making decisions, hesitate to commit to a paint color, dream about trying that DIY project but worry we'd mess it all up.”
― Myquillyn Smith, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful

“Natural light is a free gift from God. Don't waste it.”
― Myquillyn Smith, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful

“I once heard someone say, "There's no such thing as a chandelier that's too big for a room." I'm not sure I completely agree with that, but I admit I've yet to see a chandelier too big for a room.”
― Myquillyn Smith, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful

“The Nail Hole Diaries

I didn't realize... how terrified some women are of devaluing their homes by making a nail hole in the wall. Part of me wants to scream, "It's a ding-a-ling nail hole in the wall! Is there anything in life less risky that creating a one-millimeter hole in a wall that can be filled with your finger and some putty in two seconds?" A nail hole is the easiest repair.”
― Myquillyn Smith, The Nesting Place: It Doesn't Have to Be Perfect to Be Beautiful

“I was looking at buying a home when I lived in Florida in 2009. I was looking at homes next to the Peace River and in Lake Suzy next to lakes. I am so thankful I never bought one!”
― Steven Magee

“Building new homes in an area that was previously destroyed by hurricane Ian may be regarded as a form of insanity.”
― Steven Magee

“Florida buyers will need to be aware that many previously flooded building lots and second hand homes will be sold to unsuspecting people.”
― Steven Magee

“Rebuilding of hurricane Ian damaged homes will likely be muted, as 80% of owners did not have insurance.”
― Steven Magee

“Roofing repairs were a feature of hurricane Ian.”
― Steven Magee

“Hurricane Ian鈥檚 flooding trashed the interiors and belongings of many homes.”
― Steven Magee

“Two weeks after hurricane Ian, some Florida homes were still flooded from historic high river levels.”
― Steven Magee

“Electric cars are expensive to buy, take too long to charge, can be filled with electromagnetic fields and when they go on fire, you cannot put the fire out for a long time! They are setting fire to homes during the night when they go on fire during charging!”
― Steven Magee

“This was, by comparison, a safe, secure, clean world. And looking at it, she thought it must be rather pleasant to be able to live anywhere you wanted to, just so you could pay the rent, instead of having to find out first whether it was a place where colored people were permitted to live.”
― Ann Petry, The Street

“Many people lost their homes, their possessions and their jobs in the August 2023 Maui wildfires.”
― Steven Magee

“Power companies love people that light up their homes all night long!”
― Steven Magee

“Only when we live God鈥檚 way, not religion鈥檚 way, can we begin to affect our homes, community, and the world.”
― Daniel ANIKOR

“There are generally two types of home sellers: Those that do not need to sell anytime soon and those that need to sell as soon as possible!”
― Steven Magee

“Apartments aren't supposed to be investments," (...)
"What are they supposed to be, then?"
"Homes.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“For some reason, though there is neither a steeple nor stained glass, the house reminds him of a church. He takes that impression seriously. He thinks it possible that ceremonies of innocence, the humble routines and kind sharing of daily existence that give life meaning, when performed often and for long enough, can confer on a house a hallowed quality. He鈥檚 known such homes; he has known their opposite, where human depravity has so soiled a structure that an aura of evil shadows every room even when all the lights are lit.”
― Dean Koontz, The Forest of Lost Souls

“7 Expert Tips For Managing Your Custom Home Budget”
― Duane Adlington