Quotes About Belonging

I don't tend to think of the characters i play as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

Ser local en un mundo globalizado es una señal de penuria y degradación social.

The task confronting free individuals was to use their new freedom to find the appropriate niche and to settle there through conformity: by faithfully following the rules and modes of conduct identified as right and proper for the location.

was between lives. "What is it?" I asked. "What is it we are longing for?" He thought a minute and said, "There isn't any it. There is just the longing for it." This sounded exactly right. Years later and a little wiser, I know what the longing was for: here is where I belong.

But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing.

But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing

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.

Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted

You can't build homes out of people, but that didn't stop me from letting Noah burrow her way into my heart. The fireplace in our living room crackled and bloomed as her eyelids drifted slowly shut, and I thought that no matter where we were, no matter what we did, home would always be with her

Orphans have many parents.

There was a fleeting cold front, the slight judgment that said immigrants were a necessary fact of life, one that must be tolerated but never truly accepted. The only way to ever become a permanent part of America's greatness would be to defend it. Cassidy

Nationalism had now replaced neighborliness.

I'll never get that far," Enza says. "We came to make money to buy our house. As soon as we do, we'll go home." "We all come here thinking that we'll go home. And then, this becomes home." The

We all come here thinking that we'll go home. And then, this becomes home." The

The mystery of the child's soul is hidden completely from the parents. It belongs to God alone, to whom life belongs.

In the heart's wild space lies the space of wilderness. What won't one lose, what home one won't give forever!

Everyone carries his address in pocket so that atleast his body will reach home.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

Inconspicuousness begins as self-protection but soon extends to self-reliance and a deeper appreciation of who we are and where we belong in things.

Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.