Quotes About Belonging

Hardly a NightWing at all

Yes, Sunny," said Thorn, her voice falling like drops of water into the stillness between them. "It's because you're half NightWing.

She was surprised at how warm and happy she felt to be back with her friends again. This was how she'd expected to feel among the SeaWings — like she was coming home. So why don't I?

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery.

She's no one's favorite dragonet, I might add.

The most unhappy people in a company are the ones who don't fit the culture and are allowed to stay. They know they don't belong. Deep down inside they don't want to be there. They're miserable.

It's important not to misread my advice as permission to tolerate people who don't fit. Too often, leaders know that an employee really doesn't belong and would be better elsewhere, and they fail to act because they lack courage.

1. What makes your family unique?

I am compelled into this country.

He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another.

What a wonderful thing to be an American! he said impetuously. Yes, said Dyar automatically, never having given much thought to what it would be like not to be an American. It seemed somehow the natural thing to be.

alone in his struggle to bring the truth to its people. He consoled himself by recalling that it is only in each man's own consciousness that the isolation exists; objectively man is always a part of something.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Community gardens] were oases in the urban landscape of fear, places where people could safely offer trust, helpfulness, charity, without need of an earthquake or hurricane...Community gardens are places where people rediscover not only generosity, but the pleasure of coming together. I salute all those who give their time and talents to rebuilding that sense of belonging.

This is her home now...of her own free will.

Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders.

Programmers tend to be divided into tribes by the languages they use. More even than by the kinds of programs they write.

When the uniqueness of a place sings to us like a melody, then we will know, at last, what it means to be at home.

All the lonely people. Where do they all belong

A notable exception is the position taken by Roy Baumeister and Mark Leary in their Psychological Bulletin article, The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental

the people in this country who feel most like foreigners to each other are English people who've just arrived and the ones who have been here for several years.

What if we stopped attending community groups and became groups of communities?

Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.

Even the smoke of our motherland is sweet and pleasant to us.")