Quotes About Belonging

We were created for belonging, made to behold the heritage of our creative diligence in children and grandchildren and in the legacy of a home forged and tended in a specific place on earth.

Sally Goldenbaum

You're not big enough, so you don't belong. Others are more deserving than you are.

People don't want to connect with brands. They want to connect with each other. Fascinating companies create more opportunities for people to connect with each other, through the brand.

People identify with fascinating brands: They identify themselves, their opinions, and their community. (As the commercial says, "Are you a Mac, or PC?")

Tell them they're Indian,' I told her. 'You don't want them havin' a bad time.

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

He tratado de entregarte, para que tú lo retuvieras en tu puño, para que lo acogieras en tu pecho, junto a tu corazón desfalleciente, el significado de un instante: el instante en el que por la amplitud de mi deseo, supe que eras mía.

I cittadini sono gli eredi e i proprietari del patrimonio culturale, tanto nel suo valore monetario che nel suo valore simbolico e metaforico, come incarnazione della comunità di vita e della sua memoria storica, come segno di appartenenza, come figura della cittadinanza e dell'identità del Paese. È in questo senso che il patrimonio culturale, sulla scia di una storia plurisecolare, ha assunto, in Italia prima che altrove, una notevolissima funzione civile. Può averla ancora.

Our task for the future is exploring what it means for each individual to be a member of earth's household, a commonwealth of kindred beings. Whether we will use our freedom to encapsulate ourselves in narrow, tribal, paranoid personalities and create more bloody Utopias or to form compassionate communities of the abandoned is still to be decided. So long as human beings possess a measure of freedom, all hopes for the future must be subjunctive we may, we might, we could.

you, Aunt Helga? Are you in hell?" Helga appeared to consider the question seriously, but when her answer came it was with a dismissive gesture. "Oh, no, honey. I'm all right. I'd rather still be at home, but then I'd be completely dependent on people who have their own lives to lead, and that's not very agreeable, either. I don't like it, but I can't say I don't belong here. It's just another thing to make the best of.

I think those people are fantastically lucky who live in houses where they can call out and expect someone to answer.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself.

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

People can live in other spheres (cf. 2:1-3), but Christians live in Christ.

I am not from Venus. . . . I am from a small town on the Serbo-Croation border.

Two teenage boys have tattoos on their necks, instantly halving the alienation they'd hoped to achieve.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

Une langue implique obligatoirement l'existence d'un groupe culturel, plus ou moins considérable, avec sa mentaliteé.

If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.

There are many heads lying in Christ's bosom, but there is room for yours among the rest.

I make them feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases, which, most of the time and especially in the Clinic, don't hardly exist at all. With me, they feel they're still part of the human race.