Quotes About Belonging

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.

Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

I never had a country, never had the choice; I was born into one.

We were meant to be focused on our purpose, and "anything personal should be left behind." Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were while embedded in Area X.

We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.

I can speak for myself—and I have no right to speak for others—when I say, that, if I belonged to a party organized on the basis of making war on any section or interest in the United States, if I know myself, I would instantly quit it. We have made no war against you. We have asked no discrimination in our favor.

The sum total of a day in school should not be an overwhelming reminder of what students cannot do. Ensure that all students have a school adult or activity that connects them to their best possible selves.

You don't inspire people by telling them they're wrong. You need to show them something extraordinary so they long to be part of it.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

this is a girl who did drugs, who fucked her high school teacher, who chose Berkeley over Stanford. Maybe she really could be one of us.

Foster wanted his students to fit into and excel in the mainstream—not to vindicate themselves to disapproving whites, but to claim a birthright.

Home isn't these four walls. Home is wherever we are together.

I can't help but smile. Win or lose today, I know I've already won. My life is just the way I always wanted it to be. So I just hold on tight, thankful that I finally know where this princess belongs.

Instead of waiting for community, provide it, and you'll end up with it anyway.

People crave what they have always craved: to be known and loved, to belong somewhere. Community is such a basic human need. It helps us weather virtually every storm. If Jesus' basic marching orders were 1.) to love God and 2.) to love people, then the fruit of that obedience includes being loved by God and loved by people. We give and get here. According to Jesus, the love of God and people is the substance of life.

There is nothing more meaningful, life-giving, or lovely than home

Once we belong to Him, we know where to look for sweet communion,

Loneliness can be a prison, but we have keys. You needn't wait for someone to open the bars. If you can make a pot of chili and use a cell phone, then you can create community.

I may just be one shade of one color of one strand, but I'm part of an elaborate tapestry that goes beyond my perception.

the beginning of time, creation encountered its first problem: "It is not good for the man to be alone." Thus history began with human connection. Two are better than one, and togetherness is always superior to loneliness.

What makes you feel strong and fully alive? What lights you up and gives you energy just thinking about it? Who would you be to your village if you had one? BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF SOMETHING. Whether it's a knitting group, dance troupe, church, kayaking club, or homeschool collective, commit to growing community around one area of your life that enlivens you or fills a need.