Quotes About Belonging

When I was younger I used to think that if I could hug myself tight enough I could make myself smaller, because there was never enough room for me, at home or anywhere, but if I was smaller then I would fit in.

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. I was one person: I risked becoming no person.

There has to be an "us" because now there is "them".

One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others.

I am a blank, here, between parentheses. Between other people.

You're not my real parents, every child has thought. I'm not your real child. But with orphans, it's true. What freedom, to thumb your nose authentically!

Homelessness is a nationality now.

It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that. Falling

I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will.

I never had a favourite letter that began my name - I for Iris - because I was everybody's letter.

Maybe they'll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don't fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that's what they'll do.

I'd wanted to leave home, but have it stay in place, waiting for me, unchanged, so I could step back into it at will.

I planted him in this country like a flag

Charis tried not to mind, since nothing that was or had been would perish, and the farm was still inside her, it was still hers because places belonged to the people who loved them.

I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.

if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. Everyone knew that.

time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.

Ours is a fall into greed: why do we think that everything on Earth belongs to us, while in reality we belong to Everything? We have betrayed the trust of the Animals, and defiled our sacred task of stewardship.

We live far away from our families and everything else that other people hold dear, and we follow a charismatic leader." "So now you're comparing Orlando to Jesus Christ?

My deepest hunger was my longing for connectedness and friendship.

We are created to live life around a table in the taking and breaking, giving and sharing, knowing and being known. Bread welcomes us into the community for which our souls were made.

according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

Twill come to you, this love of land.