“You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.”

— Tove Jansson , book Comet in Moominland

Source: Comet in Moominland

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is." by Tove Jansson?

Tove Jansson 35

Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914–2001

Tove Jansson quote: “You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.”

Related quotes

“Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW… so you stop asking.”

Ram Dass book Be Here Now

Source: Be Here Now

“Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else’s house.”

Umberto Eco book The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Source: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it- memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.”

Tad Williams (1957) novelist

Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 42, “Beneath the Uduntree” (p. 718).
Context: “Never make your home in a place,” the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. “Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.” Morgenes had grinned. “That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You’ll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course...”

“The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.”

Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic

The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

“You can go home. You can go out of Europe. You can go wherever the hell you want.”

Guðmundur Benediktsson (1974) Icelandic footballer and sportscaster

Original Icelandic quote: Þið getið farið heim. Þið getið farið úr Evrópu. Þið getið farið bara hvert sem þið viljið.
A reference to Brexit following Iceland's 2-1 win against England in the last-16 of the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship on 27 June 2016.
Source: [Eiríkur Stefán Ásgeirsson, Verð að vera ég sjálfur, https://timarit.is/page/6731435, 4 July 2020, Fréttablaðið, 2 July 2016, 22, Icelandic]
Source: [Ed Aarons, ‘You can go out of Europe’: Iceland commentator savours win over England, https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/27/you-can-go-out-of-europe-iceland-commentator-england-euro-2016, 4 July 2020, The Guardian, 27 June 2016]
Source: [England Has Left Europe Twice in a Week and That Icelandic Commentator Is Ecstatic, https://time.com/4384954/iceland-england-euro-2016-brexit-soccer-football/, 4 July 2020, Time, 27 June 2016]
Source: [Mark Critchley, England vs Iceland: Icelandic commentator goes wild again after historic Euro 2016 win, https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/england-vs-iceland-icelandic-commentator-goes-wild-again-after-brilliant-win-a7106841.html, 4 July 2020, The Independent, 28 June 2016]