Quotes About Belonging

She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

Tanr?'ya, onu bana ba???lamas? için dua edemiyorum; ama yine de o sanki bana aitmi? gibi geliyor. Tanr?'ya, onu bana vermesi için dua edemiyorum; çünkü o bir ba?kas?na ait. Ac?lar içinde kuruntulara dal?yorum; dü?ündüklerimi ka??da dökmeye kalk??sam, bir kar??tl?klar ilahisi ç?kar ortaya.

Yerinde duramayan bir gezgin bile sonunda vatan?n? özler ve kulübesinde, e?inin koynunda, çocuklar?n?n aras?nda, hepsine ekmek bulma u?ra??s?nda dünyan?n enginlerinde bo?una arad??? sevinci bulur.

Da wo wir lieben, ist Vaterland; wo wit geniessen, ist Hof und Haus.

No necesitamos lazos ni bonitos vestidos, tan sólo necesitan encontrar un hogar, y recibir la sonrisa o el abrazo de un ser querido.

She is not fashioned for a life among strangers.

A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.

Nobody can be anybody without somebodies around.

In the beginning there are those who don't quite fit in But are somehow okay. And then some morning There are places that suddenly seem wonderful: Weather and water seem wonderful, And the peaceful night sky that arrives In time to protect us, like a sword Cutting the blue cloak of a prince.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

When individuals are shamed so remorselessly and unforgivingly that they become outcasts, or even begin to think of themselves as outcasts it becomes more rewarding to associate with others who are perceived in some limited or total way as also at odds with mainstream standards.

If you're going to be killed you invent some kind of flag and country to fight for, and if you survive you get to love the thing

While he rested, she asked, 'What's the difference between natives and outsiders?' 'Natives,' he replied, 'eat indoors and shit outdoors, outsiders eat outdoors and shit indoors.

How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?" Answer: "Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." - John Calvin (from his catechism)

Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.

no one truly belongs to the church and is counted among God's children, unless he first becomes a new man. This

Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

Homesickness is absolutely nothing," she said angrily. "It is absolutely nothing. Fifty per cent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. But I don't suppose you're old enough to understand. When you're in one place and long to be in another, it isn't as simple as taking a boat. You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.

Homesickness is absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a gospel for the first time. It was more than a music; it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a language and a costume; and these introverted kids (emotional outcasts of a war they had been too young to join, or in which they had lost their innocence), who had never belonged anywhere before, now felt somewhere at last.

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned their backs on the sufferings of others, and left them in pain; those whose greed meant that others starved and died. Such souls belong here, because they would find no peace elsewhere. In this place, they are understood. In this place, their faults have meaning. In this place, they belong.