Quotes About Belonging

Is this the hill? is this the kirk?Is this mine own countree?

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

Sometimes we need to go home to find the parts of ourselves we left behind before we can truly become whole.

What is it about friendship that makes being among friends so much richer than being among the most accomplished and interesting strangers?"---Connecting

Para un niño, sentirse diferente a los demás es una de las experiencias más duras. Ser el raro, el tonto, el advenedizo, son situaciones que te predisponen contra tu entorno. Si el mundo te acoge con naturalidad y afecto, te sientes más dispuesto a seguir las normas convencionales. De lo contrario, es más posible que desarrolles la tendencia a huir de él. O a volarlo en pedazos.

All I want is a household of my own," Margaret said. "With my own people, who look to me first instead of last.

Besides, too much time around normal people made me feel like an alien, unwanted and ugly, fluent in a different language.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

She couldn't think straight. There was her home, her job, her way of life but the deep tenderness of his kiss reawakened her heart, dispelling all clouds and hurts and fears. She belonged to Andrew now and for ever and the singing within her was so loud and joyous that it all but quelled the little unease that was left.

Welcome to the dork side ;)

A] baseball field was the only place where he felt he was exactly where he was born to be.

Got it in one. Air force brat. I'm from everywhere and nowhere.

Es como todos esos sentimientos de "¿Dónde encajo yo?" y "¿Por qué no puedo encontrar a alguien con quien hablar?" Creo que todo el mundo se siente así de vez en cuando.

At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.

I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.

We are home to each other now.

You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.

The fact is,' she stated bluntly, 'I am no more a human being than a gust of wind is. I have never had a human individual life. I have … lived in the joys, sorrows and worries of other people … it is the non-human world I belong to myself. My people are mangroves, swamps, rivers and the sea and so on–we understand each other.

be fully immersed in the baptismal waters of the Christian faith takes the entire pool of the worshiping community.

Maybe I can find a place here, even with being different. «Look around,» Pixit said. «You already have one.»

I guess that after three straight years of my not being anything -- not emo, not Christian, not prep, not jock, not ghetto, not punk, not hipster, not skank, not prude, just a half-assed band geek -- no one can believe I'd do anything so well defined as lie. I like my new superpower.

I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is. I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.