Quotes About Belonging

The Outsider is always unhappy, but he is the agent that ensures happiness for millions of 'Insiders'.

be able to go into his arms at the close of the day.

No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge…. You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.

Home is always the safest whoever, whatever or wherever Home may be.

Just remember, who you are, and always take that with you, wherever you do go.

I don't want you think that we ain't a family 'cause we ain't all in one place....

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he's always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination.

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored.

Strange is loneliness; it still longs to have something to belong to, some group, some aggregate.

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

As far as I was concerned, there was nothing wrong with being an odd duck. I figured some people have edges that don't allow them to slot neatly into the holes society expects them to fit into, that was all.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

Imagina lo que sería posible si dejamos de ir a la iglesia y empezamos a ser la iglesia!

Al elegir a sus amigos, Jesús se rodeaba de los solitarios, los quebrantados, los ignorados por la sociedad. Dios te está llamando a formar parte de su iglesia, a ser su iglesia. Si no te consideras lo suficiente bueno, eres exactamente la persona que él está buscando.

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

The problem with thinking "we go to church" is that it gives us a consumer mindset: I'm looking for a church that meets my needs. I need a good church that will help me.

And in case you haven't noticed, John's dead, Bobby's dead, and Martin's dead, and not a damn thing has changed—people still hang by their tribe. That's all we are, just a loose coalition of tribes.

Bring to mind your loved ones, they are the compass points in your existence, no matter where or when you are—they will guide you home, even if it is only their names.

Maybe that's what happens when you invest so much of yourself in something: whether it is a person or a place, your soul is loath to leave it. I looked for Danny's outline on those hills and thought maybe his ghost or spirit was still here, looking over the place that had been his. Maybe you stayed until you realized it wasn't yours anymore and then you went on your way.

Most Indians don't identify themselves as American particularly, but as members of nations unto themselves." She looked at me blankly. "A nation, like a tribe.

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.