Quotes About Belonging

these people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance...

The word 'camouflage' simply means 'to have a family'.

Do you know what the luckiest thing is?' 'No.' 'It is to be at home everywhere.

she worried about whether I had the clothes and social skills to fit in.

also made me feel at home.

I didn't leave the Republican Party. I felt that the party left me.

I felt more at home in Cambridge than I ever had in Dillon.

He longed for community and a sense of belonging that had been absent from the austere atmosphere of his own home.

And I was even beginning to think home might be with you

It is also the Greek term for joint ownership or partnership in some venture.49 Stephen Smalley puts it this way: "Christian fellowship is not the sentimental and superficial attachment of a random collection of individuals, but the profoundly mutual relationship of those who remain `in Christ' and therefore belong to each other.

You have to know where you belong, or you'll be angry and frustrated.

We belong to the light, we belong to the thunder We belong to the sound of the words we've both fallen under Whatever we deny or embrace for worse or for better We belong, we belong, we belong together

Man is a social animal.

pues le pertenecía como una petaca, un mueble o una prenda de ropa, sin que nadie se la pudiera disputar; ¡y ella parecía tan resignada a ser petaca, y siempre petaca!

When you know and respect your own inner nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

In other words, everything has its own place and function. That applies to people, although many don't seem to realize it, stuck as they are in the wrong job, the wrong marriage, or the wrong house. When you know and respect your own Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong. One man's food is often another man's poison, and what is glamorous and exciting to some can be a dangerous trap to others.

When you know and respect your Inner Nature, you know where you belong. You also know where you don't belong.

like any outsider, you cope, you try to copy to belong, you overcompensate for what you think you hear is the norm.

Ich will meine Familie nicht verlieren. Immerhin gehöre ich ja dazu. Was bin ich ohne sie? Ein Stück? Ein Teil? Muss jeder Mensch einmal ohne Familie sein, um ein Mensch zu werden?

Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport.

You don't need to belong to any particular class or ethnicity to be a nerd, but some ethnic stereotypes are nerdier than others.

Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

I wrote 'Redefining Realness' because not enough of our stories are being told, and I believe we need stories that reflect us so we don't feel so isolated in our apparent 'difference.'