Quotes About Belonging

The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

People used to say I was weird,» he said. «I used to care. But I don't anymore. People shouldn't care, people shouldn't use words like weird once you hit junior year. Everyone's weird. That's the way I look at it.»

The women with the growth mindset—those who thought math ability could be improved—felt a fairly strong and stable sense of belonging.

No matter how much people want to feel loved, appreciated, and a part of things, they will be lonely until they make a commitment to themselves, a commitment that is so total that they will give up community and love, if necessary, to be fully who they are.

The results are always the same: severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

Heimat ist das, von wo wir ausziehen, wo wir beginnen...Es ist nicht das, wo wir bleiben, es ist nicht das, was uns unverändert begleitet. Die Wanderschaft, auf die wir uns begeben, auf der wir unserem Begehren nachgehen, diese Unruhe, die uns angetrieben hat, das Gefühl des Exils ist die Quelle für das Suchen nach einem anderen Zuhause, nach einer anderen Heimat.

But I found my family. I found the right thing to do. I found the way home.

Houses are real, deep, emotional things.

It's like they can smell the public school on me.

Dear Beck, It's not your fault you were born on an island. Of course you identify as an island. But, dear girl, you're not an island. Be populated. Be welcoming to love. Love, Beck.

And there's no way around it. I didn't just pet this cat. I adopted it.

Why didn't people belong to the ones who tried to love them?

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

This country can't have me anymore. Back home I'm going to tell them about these people. These people don't flow. Each one is a separate drop of water falling into a still pool, each drop waiting for stillness before it falls.

You could learn to play tennis or swim or drive a car. And what if you really do belong in the world after all and the prophecy is wrong that says you must lose your soul? Why should you lose your soul? Why does so much horror lie upon you? Why don't you give up and live?

Home is where they have to accept you.

The furnishings she'd chosen reminded him of the woman who lived here. Nothing to admire, and yet he wished to be here. To stay here and be surrounded by rooms that settled him. He was at ease, and the longer he stayed, the more he found to like.

I guess quotes make me feel more connected.

Hey, I wish we hung out more in high school. Why didn't we?" "I was hiding," Jake said thoughtfully. "Me too." "You?" "In my own way." Hearing that made Jake wonder if they'd all been in hiding, if he hadn't been the only one who'd felt alone for so much of high school.

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.)

Why would I want to fit in?

So, I'm a bear," she explains, eyeing us all. "Wait? Is Issie something?" "Nope," Issie pouts. "All human. All the time." "The coolest human ever," Devyn says, reaching down and ruffling her hair.

Anywhere I roam, where I lay my head is home.