Quotes About Belonging

Vielleicht hängt es tatsächlich mit diesen frühen Fahrten, diesem ständigen Unterwegssein zusammen, daß ich mich später immer, wenn ich unterwegs war, eher zuhause fühlte, als wenn ich irgendwo blieb und mich einzurichten versuchte.

Netfali's breath caught in his throat at the sight of the infinite colors and the gentle curve of the faraway horizon. He had never imagined the height of the white spray breaking against the rocks, the dark sand, or the air that whispered of fish and salt. He stood, captivated, feeling small and insignificant, and at the same time as if he belonged to something much grander.

En el caso de algunos estímulos semánticos, como "frontera", "inmigración" o "integración", la expectativa alimentaria del participante cultural adiestrado exitosamente está tan firmemente fijada, que la saliva invade de inmediato. Mientras esté mojado en los foros, se puede suponer que las secreciones se mantienen inofensivas.

Ludzie naprawdÄ™ nie walczÄ… o odcieÅ" skóry czy ideologiÄ™ – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji "swoich". Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza siÄ™ do wiÄ™zów krwi i ograniczonych zasobów.

He may have been wrong. I may have been. But that, that distance—that chronic sense of being an alien among your own kind—it's not entirely a bad thing.

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does.

I really believe that when we start talking ourselves back, we'll have more to offer the world." he [Woodenkinfe] said. "I don't want a gray world." "You mean taking back our cultures and where we come from." "Absolutely! You want to talk about the fabric of this country, that's it." "So rather than a melting pot, it would be a..." "A blanket of color, all sewn in the shape of the U.S.

The fundamental human need to belong comes from the desire to associate with others, to cooperate, to accept group norms. However, the SPE shows that the need to belong can also be perverted into excessive conformity, compliance, and in-group versus out-group hostility. The need for autonomy and control, the central forces toward self-direction and planning, can be perverted into an excessive exercise of power to dominate others or into learned helplessness.

You hear all this talk about Southern hospitality. And they'll break their necks for you, all right, if you're family. Or if you've lived here for a hundred years. But if you're a stranger …

We belong to Jesus Christ, because we have all been baptized into His body. Now the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit gives us a spiritual unity that overcomes our differences, enabling us to live together in a caring community that stands out like a city on a hill.

The place where we most belong is not our neighborhood, our nation, our company, or even our family, but our church—the city of God—that caring community where we are known and loved, and where we find deeply supportive faith-building relationships.

Community is a beautiful thing; sometimes it even heals us and makes us better than we would otherwise be.

We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty.

Instead, we sit in a booth at the Coffee Cup and drink fresh coffee from mugs that have our names printed on the bottom and that hang on the wall next to the front door when we're not there. We walk in, the bell over the door tinkles, Vinny greets us by name, and we pluck our mugs from the rack and head to our booth

There's someone for everyone, here in London, they always say.

You see, some of us just find our niches somehow.

Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.

Loud songs do not a patriot make.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

No man is a failure who has friends (Clarence).

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.

I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else.

a sense of not belonging is something one inherits.