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30 Mantras To Soothe Your Homesickness When You Moved To A New Country

Being away from home teaches you that you don’thave a home unless you make one, inside yourself. Moving to a different place than the one where you were born can be a lengthy inner journey, presumably longer than the casual accommodation, but while you're
Ioana Cristina Casapu
July 19, 2016
“Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.”
— Tove Jansson, Sculptor's Daughter
Tagged: Books, Homesickness, Loneliness, Philosophy, hair, Flowers, Love, Relationships, Life In Transit
“Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.”
— John Eldredge, Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul
Tagged: Missing, Homesickness, Adventure, Philosophy, Technology of Wishing, Living Skills, Psychology, Spiritual Journey
“When you walk alone, eat alone, take trains and planes alone, you just learn to believe that the kindness of strangers is sometimes more valuable than the insecurity of long lasting relationships in your life.”
— Ioana Cristina Casapu, I Move To Keep Things Whole
Tagged: Loneliness, Missing, Homesickness, Architecture Of Happiness, Life In Transit, Relocation, Pain, Love
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
— Cesare Pavese, Travelling is a brutality
Tagged: Writers, travel, Brutality, Homesickness, Sadness, Pain, Loneliness
“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.”
— Clint Borgen, Borgen Project
Tagged: travel, Cultural Clash, Life In Transit, Explore Your Mind, Architecture Of Happiness
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”
— Clifton Fadiman, The New Lifetime Reading Plan
Tagged: Life In Transit, Life Is A Journey, Architecture Of Happiness, travel, Homesickness
“Let’s not travel to tick things off lists, or collect half-hearted semi-treasures to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms. Rather, we’ll travel to find grounds and rooftops and tiny hidden parks, where we’ll sit and dismiss the passing time, spun in the city’s web, ‘til we’ve surrendered, content to be spent and consumed. I need to feel a place while I’m in it.”
— Victoria Erickson, Edge of Wonder
Tagged: travel, Life In Transit, Relocation, Wanderlust, Homesickness
“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”
— Stephen King, 11/22/63
Tagged: Homesickness, Home, travel, Relocation, Cultural Clash, Sadness, Loneliness, kindness
“My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.”
— Aglaja Veteranyi, Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta
Tagged: Home, Homesickness, travel, Pain, Loneliness, Architecture Of Happiness
“When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place, and it's lonely. It takes a while to get into it. But once I got into the flow of it and started to grow up, I realised that my home is wherever I am.”
— Toby Kebbell, A quote by Toby Kebbell
Tagged: Home, Homesickness, travel, Relocation, Loneliness, Isolation, Cultural Clash
“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”
— Hannah Arendt, Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess
Tagged: Love, Life Is A Journey, Architecture Of Happiness, Mindfullness
“’The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”
— Adam Gopnik, Paris To The Moon
Tagged: Life Is A Journey, Sadness, Homesickness, Freedom, Love, Cultural Clash
“What makes expat life so addictive is that every boring or mundane activity you experience at home (like grocery shopping, commuting to work or picking up the dry cleaning) is, when you move to a foreign country, suddenly transformed into an exciting adventure. Try finding peanut butter in a Japanese grocery story or explaining in broken Spanish to the Guatemalan pharmacy that you need cough drops and you’ll understand. When abroad, boredom, routine and ‘normal’ cease to exist. And all that’s left is the thrill and challenge of uncertainty.”
— Reannon Muth, A Travel Blog
Tagged: travel, Homesickness, Living Abroad, Living Skills, Life In Transit, Architecture Of Happiness
“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same”
— Sarah Turnbull, Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
Tagged: Love, Life Is A Journey, travel, Cultural Clash, Bittersweetness, Melancholia, Homesickness
“Life might be difficult for a while, but I would tough it out because living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. ”
— David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
Tagged: travel, Homesickness, Love, Life Is A Journey, Architecture Of Happiness
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”
— Miriam Adeney, Kingdom Without Borders
Tagged: Architecture Of Happiness, Pursuit of Happiness, Love, travel, Homesickness
“I think it all comes down to feeling lonely and unloved.”
— Anja Nillsson, Living In A Rich City And Being Poor
Tagged: Sadness, Loneliness, Living Abroad, Living Skills, Compassion
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”
— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye
Tagged: Missing, Homesickness, Explore Your Mind, Expat Life, Relocation, travel, Togetherness
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train To Lisbon
“Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.”
— Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Tagged: Loneliness, Forgetting, Living Abroad, Architecture Of Happiness, Contemplation, Ennui
“All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.”
— Isabel Allende, Of Love And Shadows
Tagged: Homesickness, Love, Writers, Expat Life, Roots, Melancholia
“Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.’”
— Erich Fromm, The Graduate's Handbook: Your No-Nonsense Guide for What Comes Next By Clark Gaither
Tagged: Journey, Living Abroad, Living Skills, Architecture Of Happiness, Technology of Wishing
“Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.’”
— Peyton Sawyer, One Tree Hill
Tagged: Missing, Homesickness, Sadness, Melancholia, Love
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher, Lean Forward Into Your Life
Tagged: Living Abroad, Life Is A Journey, Beauty Of Life, Melancholia, Wanderlust
“I don’t cry because we’ve been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.”
— Donna Lynn Hope, Unknown
Tagged: Pain, separation, Homesickness, Missing, Love
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”
— D.H. Lawrence, Escape
Tagged: Escapism, Life Is A Journey, Expat Life, Wanderlust, Beauty Of Life
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
— Rudyard Kipling, In praise of Kipling’s verse, T.S. Eliot
Tagged: Foreign Cultures, Expat Life, Explore Your Mind, Life Is A Journey
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Tagged: Life Is A Journey, Voyage, Discovery
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.”
— Mark Jenkins, Unknown
Tagged: Adventure, Wanderlust, Missing Home, Homesickness, travel
“You will ask yourself questions like: what is the history of wind? How did this gust arrive here? Where did it come from and who am I to be blown by it? The storm is blowing people back to their homes, blowing goods back to their factories, blowing factories back to their countries, blowing people back into their past”
— Hito Steyerl, Liquidity Inc.