Quotes About Belonging

Without ties to our ancestors, we are lonely specks of dust, adrift and floating, attached to nothing and no one.

Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.

Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home.

The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.

Home is the place where loneliness disappears. When we're home, we feel warm, comfortable, safe, fulfilled.

The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in

We can be connected to others as with people or connected to others as with objects, but we are always connected. Separation is an abstraction. Together is our reality.

Man ist nicht bloß ein einzelner Mensch, man gehört einem Ganzen an, und auf das Ganze haben wir beständig Rücksicht zu nehmen, wir sind durchaus abhängig von ihm. (S.199)

To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home

DIANA: Mary's right. Give me London any day. It may smell of sewage, but it's our sewage.

Should she stay? This was her house, after all. No, it was their house too. Let Beatrice stay—she did not have to be responsible for everything. Mary felt a sense of relief. There were others to share the responsibility now.

Wrong. Wrong as a squirrel with feathers, or a wolf with wooden teeth; not injustice, not unfairness—just a wrongness that, under the sky, could not exist... the idea that such as he could belong to anything.

Every one of us is trying to find our true home. Some of us are still searching. Our true home is inside, but it's also in our loved ones around us. When you're in a loving relationship, you and the other person can be a true home for each other.

If you can't accept your body and your mind, you can't be a home for yourself. Many young people don't accept who they are, and yet they want to be a home for someone else. But how can they be if they're not yet a home for themselves?

I was working in cartoons. I could go to Comic-Con, buy the Hal Jordan ring, I could buy animation cels, but at the end of the day, I come back to an empty apartment. I had a life that was only around me, and when I was broken, my world was broken.

I love Jordan's like, where I'm from like the Jordan's, having Jordan's is like really part of the culture so this is really essential for me.

Next to my family in Manila, Journey is my family.

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

My hair journey involved a lot of trying to figure out how to deal with my hair as a bi-racial girl in a white community living in Long Island, N.Y., where no one had a clue what to do with it.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Music is what makes you feel joyful and makes me feel like I'm not alone. It's everything.

Judaism is a big part of my background, obviously, and my reality.

I think a lot of Jews make Israel the centerpiece of their Judaism. It becomes the centerpiece of their Jewish existence and of their faith. I have always felt that that's not for me.

The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'