Quotes About Belonging

It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.

not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

I'm not blaming anything on your mom, I'm way past that. It's just that she loved you so much, I always felt like kind of an interloper with you guys. Stranger-in-my-own-house kind of thing. You two were so close—" he laughed, sadly—"there wasn't much room for three.

Mi casa está donde yo esté.

It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one's burned tongues and skinned knees, that one's aches and pains are all one's own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.

America didn't want any of us, and you haven't felt unwanted until America doesn't want you.

Nem lesz hazája senki másnak,Erdély örökre Erdély marad.

I wanted to belong to Iris when I didn't even belong to myself.

But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore.

I just want to be like everyone else, Jason. But I can't. And I can't be like my mother, either. So what am I?" "The most amazing girl I ever met," Jason said.

Sonship is a heart that feels at rest and secure in God's love; it believes it belongs, it is free from shame and self-condemnation, it walks in honor toward all people, and it is willing to humble itself before man and God. It is subject to God's mission to experience His love and to give it away.

The house is a bit of a monster, and slowly you belong to it and begin to function in it like living furniture that gets rearranged—you become another gear inside the machine of the house, or a hand puppet to your parents. You won't find freedom until you find yourself in a place that doesn't own you.

You can't be a non-conformist if you don't wear the proper uniform.

The home world exercises its siren call over us all. No matter how far we wander, or how long we are gone, it waits patiently. And when we return to it, as we must, it sings to us. We came out of its forests, waded ashore from its seas. It is in our blood, for good or ill.

You don't know who your friends are ... until you're not like them anymore.

I felt I'd used up most of my life's words in the palace, among folk who were never really mine, in a place that wasn't home.

But was it snobbery to feel that someone's world was too different from yours to ever meld, despite what he had felt back among the light and chatter? Was it prejudiced to acknowledge that skin colour did make a difference, simply because it did matter to so many?

Some men fall in love with a woman, Some women fall in love with a man, Some men fall in love with another man, Some women fall in love with another woman - But I, my dear one, fell in love with Shetland. - Shetland

We're not alive to be alone on the planet. We're alive to share, to eat together and love together and laugh together and cry together. If you can never love because you will always lose, what reason is there to live?

It isn't a perfect America and it isn't run right, but it still belongs to us. As

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

club before. It had seemed like Becky was being so nice to her. "That should have been your first clue," Evan told Jessie later. Becky made extra buttons for Jessie and even helped tape them all over her shirt. And she made a special membership card for her and even a WHJ sign that she helped Jessie glue onto her Writers' Workshop folder.

I'm one eighth Lakota, but I don't think one eighth of anything counts for much. I'm half Irish, and then some Austrians got into the mix. Then there's the English part. That's where Hillary came from. I bet the Indians even watch the weather channel.

Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together—make myself into one whole person like everybody else.