Quotes About Belonging

Timothy said there were just those people who, when it all came down to that final moment and you were leaving Earth on a spaceship that could fit only so many people, got On the Ship with you. They were familiar. Part of you. Necessary, for various reasons. (152)

I squeeze my eyes shut and practice being not seen. I open one eye. "Well? Can you see me?" "Yes, Bob, I can see you." She said my name. Bob. It makes me feel Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, seen. And heard. Like I'm a person. Or whatever I am. I'm glad I'm not invisible after all.

The girls who choose Bryn Mawr," I said, "have often been outcasts and misfits. When they come to Bryn Mawr, they're transformed." And I set forth my theory of our empowerment in our collective oddity.

The human desire to not be alone in the world is powerful. More powerful, perhaps, than reason or conscience or fear.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

And if everything is geeky, maybe nothing is geeky, and that means that gate-keeping in geek and nerd culture is a pointless waste of time.

So don't you ever let a person make you feel bad because you love something they decided is only for nerds. You're loving a thing that's for you>.

es ist leichter, sich in eine fremde Welt zu finden, als sich in einer fremdgewordenen wieder heimisch zu machen!

I am a biological and cultural mongrel and proud of it; in mind and body, I am a product of all classes and races and nations. I don't pretend to be racially or socially pure like you, or a chauvinist like you, petty fascist of all nations, races, and classes.

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together.

Loving and being loved affirmed one's sense of self and conquered feelings of loneliness and alienation. It kept one sane.

My house is me and I am it. My house is where I like to be and it looks like all my dreams," Mr. Plumbean said. - The Big Orange Splot

being needed was not the same as being accepted.

that being needed was not the same as being accepted.

Ser alguém é sentir-se parte de algo que não nasceu e nem vai morrer em si mesmo. É uma teia que nasceu muito antes de mim, e que deve permanecer para além de minha existência.

Eles [os indígenas] são parte de cada brasileiro que aqui habita, até dos que não têm ascendência indígena alguma, pois não se trata de sangue, mas, sim, de pertencimento.

Por causa disso tudo é que decidi, quando estava com 9 anos de idade, que, ao me tornar adulto, não seria índio, e sim um ser humano civilizado, capacitado para contribuir com o meu país. O que eu não sabia, no entanto, é que ser índio era algo que estava inscrito dentro de mim; não bastava dizer palavras mágicas para isso desaparecer.

Um povo sem memória ancestral é um povo perdido no tempo e no espaço.

Belonging to groups often generates a kind of narcosis that gives us the illusion of sharing something missing from all the members of the group as individuals: completeness. Our main fear—fear of dissolution, of being nothing—keeps us from realizing that when we think we are one particular thing, and therefore isolated, we indeed become only that thing and lose the rest.

He did not care what happened as long as he would never be separated from the Master, for he had killed the great fox, and in this miserable, fouled land there was no longer any place for fox, hound, or human being.

Pochi oggetti risvegliano quanto il libro il sentimento di assoluta proprietà.

Les souvenirs sont comme les orphelins, leur avenir dépend de la famille d'accueil.

My house is me and I am it and it looks like all my dreams". - the Big Orange Splot