Quotes About Belonging

We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such.

It's so unfortunate that people have this need to join gangs.

Unfortunately, I think I drifted so much growing up that I don't have a strong sense of identity. I don't feel at home anywhere, and because of that, I think I'm more of a chameleon.

I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

Love is the thread with which we connect to the world.

What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?

…what else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves?our love for our families, our love for our fatherland?

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

Sometimes people outside of your people act more like your people than your people.

Life isn't something you possess, it's something you take part in.

The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to.

No man is an island, no man stands alone

One who has no beloved in the country can never love the country.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

As daughters of God we are each unique and different in our circumstances and experiences. And yet our part matters—because we matter.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Am I a spaceman? Do I belong to a new race on earth, bred by men from outer space in embraces with earth women?

I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.

As a kid we moved around a fair bit as a family. It was difficult to make friends but sport helped. Once people saw you kick a football it broke down barriers. Instead of being the new skinny black kid you were the kid everyone wanted on their team.

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

In Combate, we will push you. If you come to win, you come to prove that you belong in the sport; then, you belong in this company.

For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.