Quotes About Belonging

you are going to be sent home.... I 'm glad of it but where's HOME ?

If I lived here,...I have a feeling this place would take me.

Much about home is imagining home

Southerners have a gene, as yet undetected in the DNA spirals, that causes them to believe that place is fate. Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

What time are we upon and where do I belong?

Hopefully, when you are young, you discover something called love, which is really just another name for going home.

But me, maybe I fit in a place like this. Maybe the cold inside of me will seem less cold in this winter. Maybe the tall buildings will make the brick walls I build for myself seem smaller. Maybe the noises in my head will quiet down in the middle of all the other noises. Or maybe my cold and walls and noise will get worse.

The Pi Betas had accepted the fact that Rose was Mexican, but it was obvious they would just as soon ignore it. And they seemed to assume Rose wanted to do that, too. The other girls might not be overtly disturbed by the fact that Rose was a chicana, but they certainly were not going to encourage her to explore her heritage. No, if Rose joined the Pi Betas, she would have to deny the biggest part of herself. She would have to become completely American.

Yvonne had created this place for her and for others like her: born into the wrong life, the wrong body, an innocent victim of God's mistake.

In part what made the club such a haven was its power to make each person feel temporarily less alone.

Oh, Lord God of Israel, I don't understand these things. Is it wrong to want to belong to you? My soul longs for you. Help me to be obedient, to be a proper wife to Joseph, for you are sovereign and must have chosen this man for me. Make me a woman after your own heart. Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.

Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

Is that the name you wish, Muad'Dib?" Stilgar asked. "I am an Atreides," Paul whispered, and then louder: "It's not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad'Dib?" "You are Paul-Muad'Dib," Stilgar said. And

Ljudi najbolje žive kad svatko ima svoje mjesto, kad svatko zna kamo spada u shemi sustava i što može posti?i. Uništi to mjesto i uništio si osobu.

man's flesh is his own and his water belongs to the tribe—and the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things.

Gli umani vivono meglio quando ognuno ha il suo proprio posto dove stare, quando ognuno sa a quale punto appartiene, nello schema delle cose, e ciò che può riuscire a fare. Distruggetegli tutto questo, e distruggerete la persona.

Un individ n-are sens decât prin relaÈ›ia pe care o întreÈ›ine cu ansamblul societ??ii. Dac? aceast? societate nu este logic organizat? în straturi, nimeni nu-È™i va putea g?si locul, de la cel mai sublim pân? la cel mai umil.

Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person. —BENE GESSERIT TEACHING