Quotes About Belonging

Život ionako nikada nije bio moja jabuka. I ništa moje ne?e ostati ni na jednoj obali.

The family — that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

So it's confused. A: It is. D: It doesn't really belong there? A: No. It is just being what it is, but it is destroying worlds. In its normal place there are other sets of laws where it exists with others like it. And there it would not be destructive. It's a different space, a different dimensional reality.

You were born wrong, darling

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.

You live in El Paso, you're a pocho, an Americanized Mexican, and no one can tell Pablo that it doesn't change you. You shop in malls instead of mercados, you watch football instead of fútbol, you become another consumer in a giant machine that consumes consumers.

The lost, the lonely, the bicultural misfits with a foot in two worlds and a place in neither.

You go in there to be Irish, Danny thinks, as if you're not already, as if you can get away from it anywhere anyway.

I don't know about this," Cirello says. "What you don't know?" "Like why here?" Cirello asks, looking around. "All this empty space. Parking lot, a construction site …" "You scared, white?" "I'm not white, I'm Greek," Cirello says. "You see that movie, 300? Those were Greeks." "Didn't show that at V-Ville. Too gay.

How can you be alienated without first having been connected?

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return

Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.

Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

I know that life is a journey I must accept and that pain and confusion are temporary. I know that if I follow my heart, it will lead me where I belong.

Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.

Everybody feels like [a misfit] at different points in their life. If you feel like who you are is right for you, then you are beautiful.

The black and gold runs deep in me and I will remain a Steeler for life.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.