Quotes About Belonging

That was when I realised a sad but incontrovertible truth: I was a geek, and there was no getting around it. I could dress in Kate's clothes, but it didn't make me Kate.

Hey, Tracy you army brat, I think it's for you!

We put our flags in soil when we arrive, as if it now belongs to us and we know where we are.

I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.

...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Independence didn't have to be exile.

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

Being human makes us one. Being uniquely ourselves makes us individual." - Nancy S. Mure, Author of Unidentical Twins

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

To anyone out there especially young people feeling like they don't fit in and will never be accepted, please know this, great things can happen when you have the courage to be yourself.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone

You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.