Quotes About Belonging

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

Dreams are our only geography—our native land.

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Not a single creature on earth has more or less right to be here.

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

It is not the building, but the people that make a church, and that is what we always forget.

Es ist normal geworden, keine Wurzeln mehr zu haben. Nicht in Orten, nicht in Familien. Kein Grund, sich zu beklagen. Dafür leben wir heute länger. Wenn auch nicht ganz klar ist, wozu. (Der Mann schläft. Seite 74)

I am a citizen of the world.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

Wherever he went he would be a stranger, for there was no home in the world for such as he.

When a dog has slept in the same corner for so many years no one is likely to enquire into its pedigree.

And, she thinks, as she looks around this sun-filled room, colored leaves pressing against the window like bits of colored glass inside a kaleidoscope, that maybe finding home is as simple, and as difficult, as finding hope.

Avoid getting into isolated groups because you will miss the move of God. Shun cliques because they are the bundles. Endeavor to stay in the mainstream of the move of God.

Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.

Tribes With Flags

Even though we are each our own person...we're connected through the same dream! We are Seigaku!

live with their family. She was right, it was better for me to be part of a family unit.

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

The truth was, most people craved connection.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends