Quotes About Belonging

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.

Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.

God is your safety and your home. You are well embraced." Start living the multi-formity of life from this place. If you can hold on to that, it all becomes one.

If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

At school, at home, in bars, I was an emotional contortionist, alternating between awkward self-aggrandizing and trying to win favor so as to fit in. When I wrote, I let myself be dead honest, flaws and all. But I was myself, I felt real. I went inside myself when a pen was in my hand and enjoyed that space in there.

Home. It's where we come from. Who we are.

Home is our starting point for connecting to the past.

It's not an unkind thing to make a new home. And it will be one where all whom you love are welcomed.

We remain because this our home. We both have lost land here. Should we leave it all to them? I will not.