Quotes About Belonging

Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.

What is home without a mother?

Happiness grows at our firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

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

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.

All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They.

Man is a social animal.

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.

Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes an inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away — but houses are real, deep, emotional things.