Quotes About Belonging

This World is mine. You All are mine. I am a part of you. You are a part of me. Always and Forever. Main Rahoon Ya Na Rahoon.

My favorite place in the world is next to you.

It's all mine, it's all sacred.

I knew I did not belong.

The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go?

Belong to yourself, then, like me, said Big Tom. That way, when changes come, you'll always be ready to hold your tail high and move along.

In every family, at some point, there must be someone who feels like an outsider: the one always standing or sitting a little farther from the group in pictures; the older sibling when a new baby comes along; the child from a previous marriage, sometimes with a different last name. Suddenly, I was all of those.

I think poets are people who are like this; for whatever reason you feel psychological exile because you're always an outsider...

Whatever its gratifications, a sense of belonging is not equal to trust in my mind or confidence in my ability to master the challenges of life. The fact that others esteem me is no guarantee I will esteem myself.

What I wish to point out here is that the tribal premise is intrinsically anti-self-esteem.

I shall do better amongst other faces; and these familiar ones, it need hardly be said, will do just as well without me.

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it.

Karl wasn't interested in me; neither was Johnson. But Kijima's father liked me for who I was. The realization left me feeling numb. I was touched. But being touched is not the same as feeling desire. And I didn't exist without desire. If I didn't exist, then what?

I clearly wasn't in the inner circle, nor was I a member of the orbiters. I wasn't sure if I even fit into the category of outsider. Then was I even lower than garbage? Was it my lot in life to stand forever on heaven's shores watching the glittering swirl of celestial bodies on the other side?

What Mayer did in the thirties? what he was situated to do as a Jew yearning to belong? was provide reassurance against the anxieties and disruptions of the time. He did this by fashioning a vast, compelling national fantasy out of his dreams and out of the basic tenets of his own dogmatic faith? a belief in virtue, in the bulwark of family, in the merits of loyalty, in the soundness of tradition, in America itself.

while an adult could rarely be universally loved, everyone could love the right kid.

That is to say, I'm among them, but I don't feel with them.

There was a time, before I wound up here, when I would have thought all this was funny. When I was a member of the world, and not a member of "the club." The world just loves to laugh at the absurdity of insanity. I

It was Rowan who had coined the term lettuce-kid to describe them. Both of them were born sandwiched somewhere in the middle of large families, and where far from being their parents' favorites. I got a couple of brothers that are the meat, a few sisters that are cheese and tomatoes, is I guess I'm the lettuce

Homesick, Grace?" he asks, as they near the town. "Home always makes me sick," she says. "Drive on.

Anastasia felt inadequate among the greats, and yet they parted to make sure she was in the midst of them, as an equal.

We are imperfect beings, Munira said, How could we ever fit in a perfect world?

You Unwinds are all the same. You think that because no one loves you, then you can't love anyone.

Ich werde es nicht zulassen, dass du dir das Leben nimmst! Es gehört dir nicht!