Quotes About Belonging

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.

If you're ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

I always feel very connected to Canada. My reference for everything is my Canadian background, my life in Canada. Particularly on this issue of refugee immigration: I couldn't be prouder of Canada.

Home, as far as I'm concerned, is the place you have to leave. And then, if you're like me, spend the rest of your life mourning.

No believer lives a spiritually isolated life.

I lived my life as a - as a part-white, part-black but then sometimes-Jewish kid.

So sweet and precious is family life.

Paris is the only place where I feel that I lead a life that I can call my own.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

if there isn't a them, there can't be an us.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

Aledo will always be home to me because I spent the first 27 years of my life there - it's such a special place - and because of the experiences I had there, I've become the person I am today.

We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

I've learned some of the greatest life lessons from growing up in the skate and punk rock communities.

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.