Quotes About Belonging

Family isn't always by blood. It is the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you as you are. The ones who would do anything to see your smile.

Best things in life: Friends that are like family, and family, which are like friends.

I'm a woman of mad competence. I'm very optimistic. l have high self-esteem. l give myself choices, and l always feel as if l belong.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

I've got more than one membership to more than one club and I owe my life to the people that I love.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Its hard to be yourself in a world that wants you to be like them.

Do not change so people will like you. Be yourself, so the right people with love the REAL you.

It's better to be yourself and be an outsider than to lose your soul just to fit in.

It's better to be yourself and have no friends, than it is to be like your friends and have no self.

Don't lose your real self in the search for acceptance by others.

Do not change to try to make people like you... Just be yourself and the right people will come and love the real you.

Fitting in allows you to blend in with everyone else, but being different allows you to be yourself, to be unique and to be more creative.

I believe that everyone is born unique. But through the years we work very hard to be like everyone else.

Remember, no matter what we look like, we are all here for a reason, and have our own unique and special place in the world, so embrace each other from your heart...

Being unique can make you start to feel awkward about who you are. If you are not like everybody else...you can feel like you don't fit...and don't belong.

Remember, no matter how you feel, you are here for a reason, and have your own identity and special place in the world. So embrace the uniqueness of yourself.

If you want to be loved for who you are, you need to be yourself.

Family is not just a word. It's who you are, where you came from and where you will always belong.

The question isn't, as for Hamlet, to be or not to be, but to be one of them or not to be one of them. You're one, my uncle Charlus is one. What d'you expect? I've never liked all that, it's not my fault.

But really Legrandin had no need to remind people so often that he belonged to another planet when all his uncontrollable impulses of anger or affability were governed by the desire to occupy a good position on this one.

It is quite likely that this Jewish community, like any other, perhaps more than any other, could boast of many charms, qualities, and virtues. The enjoyment of these, however, was restricted to its members. The fact was they were disliked; and this, once they became aware of it, became a proof in their eyes of anti-Semitism, against which they ranged themselves in a dense phalanx, closing ranks in the face of a world that was, in any case, of no mind to join their group.

He didn't seem conventionally insane in any way that I could understand. But there was no way of comprehending him. In some eerie and fundamental way, he didn't appear to belong to our world. But that didn't seem the same as being mad.