Quotes About Belonging

In order not to fall into isolation we have to be established in the house of God and focus on serving Him

In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong.

Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.

We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.

I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

If there was an implicit self-hatred in trusting only your own, then how much deeper was the self-loathing that led a group of men to distrust someone for no reason other than that he was one of them?

Where else could you belong, except in the place you refused to leave.

Tridib often said of her, the inventions she lived in moved with her, so that although she had lived in many places, she had never travelled at all.

When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, Jews go home to Palestine. Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, Jews get out of Palestine.

Nessuno vuole restare senza stormo, o essere separato dal gregge. Ti allontani una volta o due dallo sciame - e vedi che non ti lasciano più tornare. Perchè ormai, ti sei ammalato di nitrillo.

Conformidad y uniformidad, la urgencia por «pertenecer a» y el deseo de hacer que todos los demás «pertenezcan a», pueden constituir perfectamente las formas de fanatismo más ampliamente difundidas, aunque no las más peligrosas.

I had always thought that the relationships we make strangers are the hardest and the relationships we have with family the easiest. For me the opposite had been true. The family I was born into was not really my family anymore, while the family I made for myself out of strangers was mine.

For refugees everywhere — may you find home

Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. We crave bonds and attachments, which is why we love clubs, teams, fraternities, family. Almost no one is a hermit. Even monks and friars belong to orders. But the tribal instinct is not just an instinct to belong. It is also an instinct to exclude.

Aren't we all, I thought, somebody's harvest?

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

knowing I had finally arrived where my life said I belonged.

In a crowd of Caucasians, two Chinese people are already like family.

She said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.

I wanted everything for you to be better. I wanted you to have the best circumstances, the best character. I didn't want you to regret anything. And that's why I named you Waverly. It was the name of the street we lived on. And I wanted you to think, this is where I belong. But I also knew if I named you after this street, soon you would grow up, leave this place, and take a piece of me with you.

I think about our two faces. I think about my intentions. Which one is American? Which one is Chinese? Which one is better? If you show one, you must always sacrifice the other.