Quotes About Belonging

The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.

We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

The social self is simply any idea, or system of ideas, drawn from the communicative life, that the mind cherishes as its own.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.

I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

An individual's treatment and alternatives in life may depend as much on the reputation of the group to which that person belongs as on their own merit.

Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.

All my life is in Spain. I will stay.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter.

You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.

You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.

I'll be strong, I'll be wrong, oh but life goes on Oh, I'm just a girl, trying to find a place in this world

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.