Quotes About Belonging

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved.

My fans truly are a part of me, we share something that most people will never experience.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.

Remember who you are and whose you are.

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can only be lived in community.

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.

The country in which I live is not my native country that lies elsewhere and it must always be the center of my longings.

There is no such thing as a broken family. Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart.

For whatever reason, loving someone gives you purpose. It fills you with hope, joy and a sense of optimism. But when that person leaves you; abandons your love without warning, what do you do? You are left in love, alone and desperate to feel that sense of belonging and worth again.

We're all different, but that just means anyone can fit in.

Happiness doesn't always have to come from family. Sometimes you find happiness with total strangers.

If I give you my heart will you give it a home to stay and be happy in it.

Your heart is the place for me, all warm, nice and cozy! It's the only place I would want my home to be, whether it's morning, noon or night!

Loving you has made me realize how beautiful life really is and how much I want to be a part of this world, the world in which you live.