Quotes About Belonging

Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. • KAREN BLIXEN, Out of Africa

Everyone I've ever met who was worth knowing was a bit different at school. You just need to find your people.

You and I. We are both immigrants. We both know it is hard to find your place in this world. You want to make your life better, work hard in country that is not your own—you make new life, new friends, find new love. You get to become new person! But is never a simple thing, never without cost.

Places are at once the medium and the message of cultural life. They are where cultures, communities, and people root themselves and give themselves definition.

Sense of place refers to the emotional, experiential, and affective traces that tie humans into particular environments.

Hay dos momentos importantes en la vida: cuando descubres que no eres como los demás y cuando descubres que no eres tan distinto como creías.

It is one thing to prefer to be solitary when you know that you are part of a tribe. It is another entirely to be truly all alone.

Being able to use the word "geek" has helped me a lot to define myself, but not as a mold for me to fit myself into, as a template to help accentuate my differences.

Where does it begin this sense of being the Other?

Some of the reasons for this change were obvious: Devon understood that he now had a leader, someone he had to obey. He knew his place in the pack. This seemed to calm him, soothe his anxiety. I think he understood my promise, which I could now make freely and could truly mean: now he could feel my love, relief, and appreciation. Whatever happened, this dog had a home with me.

The reason God wants you to be His son or daughter is that He wants you to be free. Free from pressure. Free from worry. Free from comparison. Free from sin. Free to be . . . you. Who you are is not determined by what you do. Who you are is determined by whose you are.

My tribe deserves more than your tribe.

Are you worried you're not like everyone else? Your worries will only worsen when you find that the path to conformity is different for each person.

Men snälla lilla hjärtat, jag är jude, jag firar inte heller jul, men nu pratar vi om att dekorera lägenheten och då är jag helt med. Du kan sätta dig där. Jag heter Paul. Du hette Benjamin. Vanvettigt vackert namn förresten.

Genom att begränsa sin kontext till att bara gälla likasinnade uppnår man normalitet. Det kan vara livsfarligt, men det kan också vara livsnödvändigt. Varje människa har behov av att åtminstone tillfälligtvis få uppleva sig normal.

Kartais aš jau?iuos kaip šuva. Aš prisirišu prie kiekvienos vietos, kurioje aš pasilieku ilgiau negu vien? dien?. Numeskit, sakau, mane dykiausioj dykumoje, palikit mane joje. Gr?ž? po keli? dien? j?s rasite mane jau ?leidus? ? j? šaknis, ? pat? jos vidur?.

mano namai yra visas pasaulis, visa naktis yra mano guolis.

Daug keliauju. Tai žmon?s man?s vis klausia, iš kur aš. Tai sakau: aš gimiau ir išaugau Lietuvoj. Gyvenu Niujorke. O mano kraštas dabar yra kult?ra. Tai jie ži?ri ? mane, mirksi: a, juokdarys. Bet aš kalbu labai rimtai. Dabar aš ?domaujuos tiktai kult?ra. O kult?ra yra visur ir niekur.

Jeigu neturi žem?s, tai tu esi niekur.

i'm a displaced person on my way home, in search for my home, retracing bits of past, looking for some recognisable traces of my past.

Post-Christendom churches will be untidy communities where belonging, believing and behaving are all in flux rather than neatly fixed and integrated. Churches are likely to be defined less by what they believe and more by the values they hold and the way they behave. The communities that thrive will be the ones with core values or guiding principles - and many of these will be unmistakably political.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

When those that we have formerly been conversant with, are turning to God, and joining themselves to his people, it ought to be our firm resolution, that we will not leave them; but that their people shall be our people, and their God our God. It

It should be our firm and inflexible resolution in such a case that it shall be no parting, but that we will follow them, that their people shall be our people, and their God our God; and that for the following reasons: I. Because their God is a glorious God.