Quotes About Belonging

People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.

Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.

The Philippines is where the love is.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big song dedicated to them.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

Geography does not define you - love does.

Those that think they're complete on their own, or want to be, don't know how to love.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.

Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.

I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

I would love this place to be my garden. (on Arsenal's old stadium)

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Love is the house of God and you are living in that house.

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are born to us, and those we let into our hearts.