Quotes About Belonging

For every person who might reject you if you live your truth, there are ten others who will embrace you and welcome you home.

Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.

and yet, the only thing about this year, he thinks, the only times that he has been completely honest with himself are on the nights he's spent here. Only among the crowd of the failed has he felt comfortable living inside his own defeat.

Une maison n'est qu'une coquille vide ; ce sont ses habitants qui lui donnent une âme.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back ' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.

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.

It doesn't matter where I am; I'm yours.

His misfortune is that he was born fun-loving into a tribe that doesn't understand fun.

She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.

do you think you can really run away from home, when you don't know where home is anymore?

underneath it all she still bore all the hurts of a kid who'd only wanted to fit in and somehow never had.

Being alone doesn't mean being where there are no people. It means being where people are all strangers to you.

If George Willard were here, he'd have something to say," thought Seth. "George belongs to this town. He'd shout at Turk and Turk would shout at him. They'd both be secretly pleased by what they had said. It's different with me. I don't belong. I'll not make a fuss about it, but I'm going to get out of here.

there's no place else I'd rather be.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends' parents were punks or hippies.

That the real source of all true longing is the human desire to attach ourselves to something infinite.

Einen braucht es, der Parolen ruft, und mit Glück werden ihm andere folgen. Wenn nicht, dann steht man nicht als Anführer einer Revolution auf der Straße, sondern als Geisteskranker. Es ist immer die Angst, der einzige zu sein und nicht zur Gruppe zu gehören, was den Menschen von bleibenden Taten abhält, und wenn es ihm irgendwann egal wird, was die Gruppe von ihm hält, dann wird er zum Amokläufer.

Playing Sports without a team, is like living life without a family.

The pain of falling APART is felt only after you have been A PART!!!!

Without love and friendship, we'd be a planet of lemmings, jumping off the cliff, no one quite knowing why.

As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle.