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Quotes About Belonging

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
~ Brother Lawrence
The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.
~ Simon Sinek
The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
~ Eric Hoffer
I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.
~ Francois Fenelon
When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.
~ Paul Theroux
You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.
~ Eli Russell Linnetz
He says "You are my property" and I feel relieved. After all, no one wishes to shatter what he owns.
~ Malak El Halabi
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
~ Frederick Douglass
To be a Jew is a destiny
~ Vicki Baum
Caleb and Aaron—now you are people and you have joined the fraternity and you have the right to be damned.
~ John Steinbeck, East of Eden
In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.
~ Tania Bruguera
Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.
~ Robin Sharma
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
~ Karen Russell
Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.
~ Yao Ming
I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams.
~ Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Liberia gave life, America gives me a DREAM.
~ Henry Johnson Jr
Every one needs someone and there is someone for everyone.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Contained within the breadth of my heart where you belong unto me and I unto you.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I do speak my mind a lot more than when I was younger. I guess that's just my Polynesian background. That's how we are: just sit back and try and fit in, try and make everyone else happy.
~ Sonny Bill Williams
You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.
~ Lauren Alaina
I don't want to change; I just want to be like everyone else. I'm nothing special.
~ Petra Kvitova
It's great to have a home and everything else that comes with it.
~ Michelle Dockery