Quotes About Belonging

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Even now he could not say in his heart of hearts for which side he would draw his blade when he was finally called upon. What was a child of two worlds to do?

This self is freer, because it knows itself to be finally and ultimately held safely in a Love that is unchangeable and real.

Sie nahmen mich wahr und ließen mich sein, wie ich war. (Bei denen bleib ich.)

There are certain people who if they are absent life becomes hard to bear.

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.

I'll only ever belong to you If you want me, I'll belong to you forever.

Ah, well, old girl, remember the definition of an Anglo-Saxon: A German who's forgotten his grandmother was Welsh.

Onun ya?ad??? yerde ya?amak, onun gibi ya?amak de?ildi.

bir müddet daha dü?ününce dünyada da hiçbir yere ba?l? olmad???n? hissetti ve içten içe bu kadar yabanc? oldu?u bu hayatta kendisini birçok kay?tlar?n ku?atmas?na, ondan, istedi?i gibi bir hareket imkanlar?n? almas?na müthi? içerledi.

on seneden beri içlerinde ya?ad??? halde bir türlü al??amad??? bu insanlar?n aras?nda onun da sa?lam bir yeri olmal?yd?. Yaln?z kendisine dayanan yaln?z kendisinin olan bir yeri.

?nsan al??t???, güzel buldu?u, kendine yak?n buldu?u yerlerden ayr?l?rken sanki vücudunun bir k?sm?n? orda b?rak?yormu? gibi üzülür.

But this one, my dear, is for me.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

Every human being is longing for involvement. Not for touch, not for a kiss, not for sex, not for anything else; one is basically longing for a deep sense of involvement.

During one of these arguments, Diego picked up one of his paintings of the Mexican desert and shouted, I don't want to go back to that! He had spent fifteen years in Paris and the life of an expatriate suited him. It was easier to be a passionate Mexican nationalist when he wasn't living there

Un banco donde sentarse o echar un sueño es la única patria que tiene mucha gente.

Mine alone is the country of my soul.

My city and my country, as I am Antoninus, is Rome; as I am a man, it is the world.

the good for a rational being is community. It was established long ago that we were born for community.

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.