Quotes About Belonging

Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of a part of themselves. It's a crime.

I'm safe inside this container called me. With a little click, the outlines of this being—me—fit right inside and are locked neatly away. Just the way I like it. I'm where I belong.

I could drink my coffee, read my book, pass the time of day without any special thought, all because I was part of the regular scenery. Here I had no ties to anyone. Fact is, I'd come to reclaim myself.

Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people.

I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world. I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me.

This was the second stage in my life, a step in my personal evolution--abandoning the idea of being different, and settling for normal... Gradually I drew nearer to the world, and the world drew nearer to me.

Jews may have known much suffering, known too the empty feeling of being a people isolated in the world, but a Jew who regularly worshiped with a congregation was never alone.

Everyone needs to be needed, wants to be wanted, and loves to be loved.

I wanted desperately to belong to someone. It didn't really matter who.

Because they travelled together, they developed intimacy. This was something other orphans didn't have. Intimacy makes you feel unique. Intimacy makes you feel as though you have been singled out, that someone in the world believes you have special qualities that nobody else has.

Don't forget to rest in the kindnesses He pours out on you—whether you feel deserving or not. You are His child. He loves you.

Yasan?n korumad??? kimseyi ben, devlet toplulu?unun d???na at?lm?? sayar?m.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

All that we love deeply becomes part of us.

To be banished from Rome is but to live outside of Rome.

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.

Everybody wants to protect their own tribe, whether they are right or wrong.

At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the children were Israeli... Suddenly, I found myself speaking the wrong language, dressed in the wrong clothes, picked up by the wrong mode of transportation - an embassy car instead of a bus.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I went to 17 different schools when I was a kid. Every time I went to school, no matter what I talked like, it was always from the wrong place.