Quotes About Belonging

if there isn't a them, there can't be an us.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

I know what it's like when the things you believe make you feel like you're on the outside looking in.

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

there's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you.

But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours. That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with.

Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.

Here I am where I ought to be.

I'm missing home so much right now. I want my parents. I want my friends. I want my bed.

Tonight I had a massive think, I've realised I seriously don't fit in with my friendship group. As sad as it is, I just really really don't.

Families aren't easy to join. They're like an exclusive country club where membership makes impossible demands and the dues for an outsider are exorbitant.

Ok so the hotel restaurant isnt exactly the Soho House, but if I dont have some social contact with people my age or at least who arent related to me, I'm going to lose it.

This is an inside joke and your on the outside!

To betray you must first belong.

People are born to be different. Yet most people spend their whole life trying to fit in and be the same as everyone else.

I really hate being gay sometimes..not 'cause of society, but other gays. It's a ruthless world to be in.

I wish I could fit in; opposed to standing out and being labeled as weird. I wish I could just be normal.

Being labeled is like being told, "Everybody has a group they belong to, and if you don't go in the group, society will hate you either way..."

I maybe a thousand miles away but I hate being left out!

I'm not even in this group of friends anymore. I need to make more friends that invite me to hang out. Its fu..ing annoying being left out.