Quotes About Belonging

Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost.

One should not belittle the advantage that is enjoyed by a fairly small cultural circle, which is that it allows the aggressive drive an outlet in the form of hostility to outsiders. It is always possible to bind quite large numbers of people together in love, provided that others are left out as targets for aggression.

Having your dog is like having a part of you here.

never really become a part of life, not in the way most people do. They may have serious relationships, they may have friends, even a sizable circle, they may spend large portions of their time in the company of others. But they never marry and they never have children. On holidays, they join some family or other group. This goes on year after year, until they finally find it in themselves to admit that they'd really rather just stay home.

Why I left, I don't know. I have never found a place of more beautiful night sounds, have never found a place where I so completely belonged despite being different.

It's like there are two worlds in Drama Club. The world onstage and the world backstage. It reminds me of how I feel all the time.

Un judío sigue siendo judío, con o sin piernas

Her home is her earthly lot, the expression of her social worth, and her intimate truth. Because she does nothing, she avidly seeks herself in what she has.

Human beings have roots by virtue of their real, active, and natural participation in the life of a community which preserves in living shape particular treasures of the past and particular expectations for the future.

Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is not uprooted himself does not uproot others.

American whose fathers have lived in the country for over two generations is so utterly different from any other American.

He that is without name,without friend,without coin,without country,is still at least a man;and he that has all these is no more

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ... And how many want out.

She discovered that the most comfortable position in society was slightly off to the side...

we need people who get us, share our depth of perception, and especially people who will co-create with us. We need our community.

Family's the most important thing.

This family may be broken. It may be shattered. But it's my broken, shattered family. And I want to be here, I finally admit to myself. To be at the party, even if I'm invisible. This is the last hurrah, even if no one's cheering. I just can't walk away.

We're us, he murmurs in my ear. We're us again.

Oh God, maybe there's something wrong with me. I'm missing the gene which makes you grow up and buy a flat in Streatham and start visiting Homebase every weekend. Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

My city too, not yours alone!

All the stars in the sky cannot worth as much as yours only because it belongs to you.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

Paramore is a family. Once youre in it, youre in it for life.

The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.