Quotes About Belonging

When you love with your heart and soul, then you long and belong. How could there be a separation?

Option A:Spend your life trying to get others to accept you.Option B:Accept yourself, and spend your life with others who recognize what a beauty you are.

[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home.

You know home isn't really about what color your couch is or what you hang on the wall... Home is about knowing you are in the right place with the right people.

There are people that I love I am all of them

I belong to love the world and its endless beauty.

With you, it's different. It's like a coming home.

Everyone needs someone who can show them what heaven looks like.

To have and hold. Not forever, maybe-not forever, for sure-and not figuratively. But literally. And now. Now, he was hers.

It's my place when I'm here alone. It's ours when you are here with me." ~Nolan

Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn't about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one.

You will never be lost to me, Selinne.

You make me feel at home in my own skin, and that is one of the greatest gifts anyone has ever given me.

Every homeland constitutes a sacred geography. For those who have left it, the city of their childhood and adolescence always becomes a mythical city.

In exile, the road home lies through language, through dreams.

It's a humiliation that you don't forget, and even early in life you learn the pain of rejection because your body isn't wanted.

Friends bring out the best in me, and what's what I cherish: they make me feel that I am worth knowing.

We are women without a voice, Ona states calmly. We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in. We are Mennonites without a homeland. We have nothing to return to, and even the animals of Molotschna are safer in their homes than we women are. All we women have are our dreams—so of course we are dreamers.

I grappled with the idea of explaining hemispheres to her, how we are required to share the sun with other parts of the world, that if one were to observe the earth from outer space one could see as many as fifteen sunsets and sunrises in a day—and that perhaps by sharing the sun the world could learn to share everything, learn that everything belonged to everyone!

Wild was the worst thing you could become in a community rigged for compliance.

Lonely fights are the worst, she said. She'd rather lose a lonely fight. She'd rather join a losing team than win a lonely fight.

Greta has many times announced that she is no longer a Mennonite -- and yet was born from Mennonites and continues to live as a Mennonite, with Mennonites, in a Mennonite colony, where she speaks the Mennonite language. Those things do not make me a Mennonite, Greta argues... [I] don't know where to go.

La Mariche no es pot reprimir més. Titlla l'Ona de somiadora. Som dones sense veu, puntualitza l'Ona, tranquil·la. Som dones sense temps ni lloc, fins i tot sense la llengua del país on vivim. Som mennonites sense pàtria. No tenim cap lloc on tornar, fins els animals de Molotschna estan més segurs a casa seva que nosaltres, les dones. Totes les dones tenim els nostres somnis… Així que, i tant que som somiadores.