Quotes About Belonging

I remember being a young black kid in high school, I didn't think the establishment or the political system was for me. I didn't think the system was for me, and I know a lot of kids feel that way.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

If you want to get serious about influencing the hearts of this generation, you have to think about creating an actual, visible, consistent place where they know they belong.

Part of the success of every program should be linked to how well it elevates the idea of finding authentic community.

Everybody needs someone who knows their name, and what's happening in their life So,

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light" (1 Peter 2:9,

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

All the literature of this century is somewhat burdened by the theme of uprootedness.

Every idea that is articulated becomes a political idea because it is always objectified within an existing community.

Commitment Now, nobody can have unity on his or her own. You cannot be married on your own. There is no such thing as an independent believer. You cannot have unity by belonging nowhere.

If home is where the heart is at, my home is where you are

Ik weet een station in een onbekende stad kan soms vertrouwder zijn dan het trappenhuis van je eigen woning

L'homme croit mourir pour défendre sa terre, sa femme, sa liberté, ses idées, alors qu'il meurt simplement parce qu'il est de trop.

Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted.

The most recent phase of the alternation between Occidentalism and primitivism has therefore concealed the essential thing, the universality of violence. A selective blindness in one of two forms has obscured the fact that all cultures, and all individuals without exception, participate in violence; that violence is what structures our collective sense of belonging and our personal identities.

The preference that cultures grant to themselves, in other words, must be perpetuated at any cost. This preference is inseparably bound up with the identity, the autonomy, the very existence of these cultures.

Ka?de indywiduum przejawia tendencj? do czucia si? "bardziej innym" od wszystkich bli?nich i równocze?nie ka?da kultura przejawia tendencj? do my?lenia o sobie nie tylko jak o ró?nej od innych, lecz ponadto jak o maksymalnie ró?nej od innych, bowiem ka?da kultura podtrzymuje owo uczucie "inno?ci" w?ród pozostaj?cych w jej kr?gu jednostek.

Love: the great connector. Stay connected

Comme si pendant le temps de notre vie, et moins encore, la France était en train de changer de peuple : on en voit un, on fait la sieste, c'en est un autre, ou plusieurs autres, et qui paraissent appartenir à d'autres rivages, à d'autres ciels, d'autres architectures, d'autres mœurs — c'est ce qu'ils semblent penser eux aussi.

This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.

There is nothing wrong with wanting something more, but this was the place that employed your parents, kept you safe, healthy, and educated you. It's the place your mom tucked you into bed, and you

finally left the worst of the happy throng behind and made it to the Methodist grub-tent, having passed by the Baptists with the snooty feeling of a man-about-town who is in the know.

Just because they aren't with us doesn't mean we don't have parents anymore.

went home thinking about the duality of being an immigrant, our split identities, the cleaving of our hearts and bodies—half of our heart remained in our homeland, the other was here with us. One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.