Quotes About Belonging

No fundo, Ana sempre tivera necessidade de sentir a raiz firme das coisas. E isso um lar perplexamente lhe dera. Por caminhos tortos, viera a cair num destino de mulher, com a surpresa de nele caber como se o tivesse inventado

Minha pergunta, se havia, não era "que sou", mas "entre quais eu sou".

And even though I'd gone into the room, I seemed to have gone into nothing. Even once inside it, I was still somehow outside. As if the room weren't deep enough to hold me and I had to leave pieces of myself in the hallway, in the worst rejection to which I'd ever fallen victim: I didn't fit.

Christianity is not a philosophy; it is not a set of rules that one may follow on one's own. It is a life which can only be lived in community, in the Church that Christ Himself founded.

Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

We want to choose one but to be chosen by all.

To gaze at flowers is to plunge into the center of the world, and through the proliferation of forms that overwhelm us there, to discover how much we belong to the world. If our eyes light up at the sight of shells, blades of grass, or clouds, it is because the eye is made of the same fabric as they are, constructed out of the same constellations of atoms; the eye is part and parcel of the same elaborate dance of forms, and driven by the same forces of the universe.

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

Siempre es más sencillo parecerse a los demás.

Teju Cole writes, "There are no refugees, only fellow citizens whose rights we have failed to acknowledge.

Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

The worst injury is feeling you don't belong so much to you—

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only." - Claudia Rankine (cited near the title page of 'An American Marriage")

Why are we here if not for each other?

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

A lost person can never find the way back home if the person doesn't have one.

There are no diverse cultures in any land, only acceptance and unacceptance.

We are all citizens of history.

It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.

Nationalism is the culture of the uncultivated, and they are legion. —MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, CONTRO VIENTO Y MAREA, P. 439

Nationalism, as a state of mind, is all fervour and no judgement. National pride, however, is a different and better thing.