Quotes About Belonging

The Holy Spirit makes a man a Christian, and if he is a Christian through the work of the Holy Spirit, that same Spirit draws him to other Christians in the church. An individual Christian is not Christian at all.

She realized she'd never felt this happy.even at her old school, she had been an outsider, always the lonely girl,the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?

Me? I was lost for long time. I didn't make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.

Do you know the difference between an expat and an immigrant? You're an immigrant in a country you look up to, an expat in one you consider beneath you.

I love the idea of homeland, but not the actual return to one.

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

I am my family's appendix, its unnecessary appendage.

My voice had no home until her.

I feel at home in my rituals.

Home is never where she is, but where she is not.

the need to belong to a party, any party, is greater than the fear of appearing stupid once again,

Why is it that you live in such a place yet consider the world so dangerous?" "I'm an American.

Never has my city been welcoming of the unpaired or the impaired.

I am my family's appendix, its unnecessary appendage. -Aaliya

Look at the way things are now. Just a set of crab in barrel and all of a sudden one crab just appear with a jacket and tie and telling everybody that he is not a crab any more. Ridiculous little place with ridiculous little people.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings—and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

When a man does not realise his kinship with the world, he lives in a prison-house whose walls are alien to him.

Now I wish to lay my all before his feet, and gain the right to my place in his kingdom.

They who from birth have had no other

At the slightest opportunity, Gora wanted to forcefully cast aside all constraints and prejudices, to come down to the level the general public, and declare with all his heart: 'I am yours, and you are mine!

Merging with that mass of humanity, he wanted to surrender to the vast current of national life, and to feel the nation's turbulent pulse within his own heart.