Quotes About Belonging

I could not continue just sitting and writing, looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to stay fit, pursuing only what could not be seen, watching the seasons cycling past without ever quite belonging to them.

By rebuilding community, we become proud of our society, proud of our institutions, proud of our nations, proud of ourselves. By coming together we discover who we are. We ignite our capacity for empathy and altruism. Togetherness and belonging allow us to become the heroes of the story.

Thiel concluded that "greed is far preferable to envy: It is less destructive (I'd rather live in a society where people don't share than in one where they try to take what belongs to everybody else) and it is more honest.

Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes.

All Daenerys wanted back was the big house with the red door, the lemon tree outside her window, the childhood she had never known.

A man could not always be where he belonged, though.

They were never my pack, not even Hot Pie and Gendry. I was stupid to think so, just a stupid little girl, and no wolf at all.

and all his smiles belong to her and her alone.

Remember this, boy. "All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs

A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.

My life is a poor thing, but it is yours.

There were times—not many, but a few—when Jon Snow was glad he was a bastard.

There was no other alternative than to seek his future among the Caucasians with whom he now rightfully belonged.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

One cannot be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee."11

Ay, you've already seen that you and your master aren't quite at home in this world, at least not like before.' Terence nodded slowly. 'It'll only get stronger, too,' Robin continued. 'Soon you'll find yourself looking into people's eyes to see if they've been there. And once you find someone who has, you'll greet him as a long-lost friend and take him to your heart.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.