Quotes About Belonging

In the one place everyone looks like me--has my name--i am the most foreign.

I need to see the world put back on its axis, things put right, even if I don't belong in it anymore.

Why go to all the trouble of meeting new people if you're not going to work on making them a part of your life?

And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the "club," whether he started out as a caddie or not.

Knowledge of places is closely linked to knowledge of the self, to grasping one's position in the larger scheme of things, including one's own community, and to securing a confident sense of who one is a person.

A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, "where mother is."

Ronnie is the most malleable character I've ever met and a real chameleon. He doesn't really know who he is. It's not insincere. He's just looking for a home. He has a sort of desperation for brotherly love. He needs to belong.

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

Old age makes you a stranger in your own country.

Lonesome makes friends of strangers.

I always feel at home in theatres like this ... because we're about the same age

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place—then it won't make a damn.

If you are considering earning your living from your Element, it's important to bear in mind that you not only have to love what you do; you should also enjoy the culture and the tribes that go with it.

Conectar con personas que comparten las mismas pasiones que tú te desmuestra que no estás solo, que hay otros como tú y que, aunque tal vez haya muchos que no entiendan tu pasión, hay otros que sí.

The Element is about discovering your self, and you can't do this if you're trapped in a compulsion to conform. You can't be yourself in a swarm.

The question of belonging is THE question addressed by the gospel.

Over four decades of pastoral ministry—I got started early—you make mistakes. But the mistakes you most regret are the ones that obscure the gospel and hurt the people you love, by saying in effect, "You do not belong," to those for whom Christ died to provide a place of belonging.

What is called 'offence to a community' is more often than not actually a struggle within communities.

Selma vjerovatno nije u pravu, ali ne osje?a nikakvu simpatiju prema ljudima koji se odri?u svog porijekla. .... Ne daj Bože da ikad prestane da pati zbog te bijede, da ikad zaboravi pogled tih seljanki, pogled pun nade, zatim prebacivanja kad su se vrata ko?ije zatvorila. ...znaju li uopšte da kao svi drugi imaju pravo na život

Every person born into the family of God has the same redemption.

Someone said, "I can stay home and be as good a Christian as anybody." You can't do it. The Bible says, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching" (Heb. 10:25).

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.