Quotes About Belonging

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.

Most people think adopted kids like me have this need to connect with our biological roots so we can discover who we really are. They think being "takeout" is totally different than being "homemade." But we're not different at all.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

O why was I born with a different face? Why was I not born like rest of my race?

STRENGTHEN INTRAGROUP CONNECTIONS The neutral zone is a lonely place. People feel isolated, especially if they don't understand what is happening to them. As I have already noted, old problems are likely to resurface and old resentments are likely to come back to life. For these reasons it is especially important to try to rebuild a sense of identification with the group and of connectedness with one another.

They were the Land people. We were the sea people.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

There is no place like your own meaning there's no place like home

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

Lost in the corn rows, I remember feeling just another stalk, and thus this country takes me over in the way I occupy myself when I am well . . . completely - to the edge of both my house and body. No one notices, when they walk by, that I am brimming in the doorways.

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world.

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.

I believe no one belongs to anyone else. You, me, Waaboozoons, we are all dust borrowed for a little while from Grandmother Earth. And even that dust does not belong to her. She has borrowed it from all creation, which is the Great Mystery, whih is Kitchimanidoo. And if you ask this old man, I would say that another way to think about Kitchimanidoo is as a great gift. Kitchimanidoo is not about keeping. Nothing belongs to anyone. All of creation is meant as a giving.

How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life? Try to remember two or three things about living there. Try to remember cooking one meal.

Wherever you are, and whatever happened, it's okay. Just come home.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

once believed I was a foundling with royal blood—Plantagenet, I think it was. I don't know how I managed to get on my parents' doorstep,

I could have said: I'm only a child but certain to end an outcast too.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange I never thought I would be.