Quotes About Belonging

In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it.

In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it.

In our explorations of Ecclesiastes and of our own lives, we have identified three things: Belong to people Accept pain as part of your life Know that you have made a difference

We need other people, and we need to be needed by other people, in order to be who we might be, who we yearn to be.

We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.

Islam was no longer a straitjacket into which I forced myself, nor a nonnative language I learned from others around me, but a grammar through which I vowed to write my own stories.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

To know yourself is to know where you're from

Ieder mens heeft geloof ik het gevoel, dat hij er eigenlijk niet bijhoort, bij het leven van de andere mensen. Dat hij op een of andere manier iets anders is, een gast, en hij doet alle mogelijke moeite om te zorgen, dat de anderen dat niet zullen merken. Dat is het gevoel, dat alle mensen gemeen hebben, en daardoor horen ze juist bij elkaar.

People returning from a journey carry the distances they have traveled with them like outspread wings - until they put the key in their front door. Then the wings fold up, and they are home again, as though in the center of an impassable steel ring on the horizon. The moment they close the door behind them, they can no longer imagine they have ever been away.

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person—hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre—into an outstanding performer.

Your partner may not look like your parents, and on the surface they may not act like your parents. But you will end up feeling the same feelings you had as a child when you were with your parents. This includes the sense of belonging and the love you felt. But it also includes the experience and upset of not getting all your needs met.

When someone disowns an idea or even a person, they give up faith in or love for something or someone they used to call their own.

There must be something besides you to cause the sensation. But peace is independently felt within oneself. It is not dependent upon the outer sensation. It is something that belongs to one, something that is one's own self.

We were the new people here. We weren't part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.

Group membership never disappears, but an organism will try to pass as something it's not, if enough of its traits transform. We are nucleate, heterotrophic, vertebral, brainy, bony fish. We are fish.

He told me that home was where the heart was. And it's very true. Don't you see, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter where we are at all. In your arms, I'm home.

the opposite of holding on is participating in something larger than ourselves.

Home is a sacred place within the mind, when you are there what is wonderful is normality.

The Franklin didn't only belong to Tasmanians. Nor our forests. They belonged to the world. We were custodians.

A community is like a family," she told him, "and every family has a few odd ducks. The important thing to remember is that they're still family.

You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in. He has to see how 'You shouldn't push even though you want to' isn't the same as 'You shouldn't wear a dress even though you want to.

No one will know who you're supposed to be," Ben warned. "No one ever does," said Claude.

Fitting in and being normal doesn't exist; not for a few years in the middle.