Quotes About Belonging

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

There was the world and there is you, where I belong clouds are more powerful than the sun.

Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.

Names have power... And he kept the one I gave him. My dear, sweet Jackaby. - Eleanor

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

I belong to the world.I'm in a relationship with the world.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

Citizenship should be based on those who have a close and real relationship with this country and its inhabitants.

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

We have a deep need to affiliate, to be around people, and no creature on earth spends as much of its life depending on others as we do

Everybody's friend is nobody's.