Quotes About Belonging

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

I've basically grown up with Harry Potter, as so many kids my age have. It's kind of a part of my life.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

When your self and your life belong to your being, your self opens, your life opens, your being comes in, and it will have everything. It is the single greatest turning point in your life.

My home is not a place, it is people.

All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.