Quotes About Belonging

A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.

My life is really so much based in England.

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

What's the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you're faking.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

I just wanted to fit in, so probably early on I knew, but it was... social life was such a distant part of my existence when I was in school that I didn't even think about it too much.

A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around

I believe we all have one address and that is Earth.

If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple.

The Internet doesn't love you or need you – but your family does.

Home was never a dream for homeless people as they used to have their homes. Living in a home was their reality. Now we need to help them to find the lost-reality again.

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.

Yes, but nomes aren't hard to make, " said Dorcas. "You just need other nomes." "You're weird.

When you're very young and you're different, you begin to believe that no one has ever been as different as you and that no one has ever felt that difference as keenly as you.

It's not a homeless life for me, It's just that I'm home lessThan others like to be.

The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.

Oh God, 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.

As truth be told, homecoming never gets old.

The real safety net of life is community, family and nature.

Life is so much richer, so very much more meaningful, if you plant yourself in a place that will nourish you.