Quotes About Belonging

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

Playing flute was the one thing I knew could make people see a human, not a monster.

I'd found my people and they weren't even mine.

I was a stranger in this family. I always had been.

I would carry my home with me, out into the world, as I looked for others to bring into it.

You're stuck more to this place than Lorelai Gilmore is to Stars Hollow.

You don't need me or Gus to make you a princess. You are loved by God and that alone makes you royalty.

but leaving me out was like being kicked out of the family.

Family is the most valuable thing on earth, though Lord knows I didn't live my life with that conviction. Remember that family isn't just blood kin but anyone who fits into your heart.

Remember that family isn't just blood kin but anyone who fits into your heart.

No surprise. I was the only one at Dave and Bubba's not wearing a Ragland Rattlers cap. Talk about feeling disloyal. And uncomfortable.

If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were your provenance. Dead, you had no provenance.

God, I'm so glad you're mine,

Be yourself and you will find, who minds doesn't matter and who matters won't mind.

Adolescents, especially girls, are most resilient when they are connected to others.

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

She hadn't been born into this world, but she'd been born with the love of words and and she'd found her home.

Every house where love abides and friendship is a guest, is surely home, and home, sweet home, for there the heart can rest.

Circusleute und Nomaden sind verwandt. Sie schlagen nie tiefe,, langsam wachsende Wurzeln wie eine Eiche, sondern zauberhafte Luftwurzeln, die in jeder Umgebung eine Heimat finden und sich überall ausbreiten können. Und mit einer nur den Nomaden eigenen Leichtigkeit verlassen sie jeden noch so vertrauten ort wieder, als wären sie nie dagewesen. Sicher tragen sie bei jedem Abschied Wunden davon, doch nie sind die tödlich wie bei einer ausgerissenen Eiche.

When the proximate community is dysfunctional, alienated individuals need some other way to channel their need to belong.4 Populist nationalism offers one such appealing vision of a larger purposeful imagined community—whether it is white majoritarianism in Europe and the United States, the Islamic Turkish nationalism of Turkey's Justice and Development Party, or the Hindu nationalism of India's Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

A identidade se define por aquilo que diz respeito a todos e pertence a todos, o que implica essa relação de "ser o mesmo" e de manter o reconhecimento através do tempo, apesar da alteração das variáveis.

If you happen to be born into an Indian family, an Indian family from the Caribbean, migratory, never certain of the terrain, that's how life falls down around you. It's close and thick and sheltering, its ugly and violent secrets locked inside the family walls. The outside encroaches, but the ramparts are strong, and once you leave it you have no shelter and no ready skills for finding a different one. I found that out after years of trying.

member from the United Provinces, Begum Aizaz Rasul