Quotes About Belonging

The most beautiful place in the world, is anyplace. Anyplace you can hold your head up. Anyplace you can be proud of who you are. But I though, where you love somebody a whole lot, and you know that person loves you, that's the most beautiful place in the world.

Me quedé pensando que allí donde hay alguien a quien se quiere muchísimo y donde hay alguien que nos quiere de veras, ese sí que es el lugar más bonito del mundo.

For most Americans, our most precious possession is citizenship in this amazing country.

only 40 percent of liberals told Pew Research they were "proud to be American"—compared with more than 70 percent of conservatives.

I think beaches kind of get in your blood, and if you grow up near one you never feel quite right when you're away from it.

And I, I thought, like having my new family here.

I wondered what being the only black student in your grade would feel like. I guessed it would feel no different from being the only anything in your grade. I was the only one in our grade with seven brothers and sisters, including 10-year-old triplets. But I knew that wasn't quite the same. The kids couldn't tell that just by looking at me, but Jessica's coffee-colored skin was there for the world to see.

All of a sudden it dawned on me. I knew. I just knew. I was adopted, and my adoption papers were in there. If I were adopted, that would explain why I didn't look like anyone in my family, why I didn't act like anyone in my family, and why there were so few pictures of me. I wasn't Mom and Dad's real kid. I was an unwanted baby, or an orphan like Emily Michelle.

There are several other members of my family — but they're not people. We've got a puppy named Shannon — she's a Bernese mountain dog, and she's going to be huge some day. And Boo-Boo is Watson's cat. He's old and fat and kind of mean — but he's still part of the family. Plus, Karen and Andrew have two goldfish, Crystal Light the Second and Goldfishie.

Ann M. Martin

As much as I loved living in Stoneybrook, I wanted to move back to California. Permanently.

Ann M. Martin

Jessi is the only black student in the sixth grade)

But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment to anything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence; the ego only there to give significance

Why do you think posers pose? Because they want to be invited to the dominion of the real. And they know their very desire for it disqualifies them.

A few months ago, leaving for college seemed glamourous, but now it's hard to believe that this little dorm room, with its scratchy sheets and a lock that sticks, is home. It's hard to accept that this is my new life, that these are my new friends. I am one in many here. There are dozens here as good as me, even more who are smarter, funnier. And it scares me because before I stuck out and now I blend in.

She couldn't know anyone, but someone still needed her. She couldn't be anyone, but she could still love.

You complain because you do not belong here. And your complaint becomes evidence you do not belong here. When the judgment that you do not belong here has already been made, you have to work hard not to provide evidence to support that judgment. She

I was profoundly shy growing up, and my sense of human sociality was of something from which I was barred: almost like a room with a locked door for which I did not have the key. Perhaps that was it: gender seemed like a key to a lock, which I did not have, or which I did not fit. Looking back, I think I decided to self-girl when I went to university, as I was exhausted by not fitting or not fitting in.

It's like Charlie told the cop. For this old man, this is home.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? They're the same thing, Peter said, the answer sudden and sure, although a surprise to him.

You going back for your home or for your pet?" "They're the same thing

Peter shifted his backpack and crutches. He took a step toward the bus. Then he turned back. I'm family? That's as true a thing as I've ever known. Now get on that bus.