Quotes About Belonging

Cornelia pulled love around me like a coat, tugged it shut, and did up the buttons, as if I belonged to her. And so I did.

And then, one day, Edith gave me a house.

It all made me realize I wasn't the only one who wasn't sure they belonged. There was no one right way to fit in--it seemed like everyone was finding their own place, even if that place was on the edge of things. Still, there had to be ways to make it easier.

GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads; they need a safe place to put their glasses while they sleep.

Maar selfs in ons andersgeit soek ons ander mense wat op min of meer dieselfde manier as ons anders is. Ons bly nou eenmaal kuddediere.

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

But no one builds better homes than those who have lost home.

As a child of God, you aren't just a manifestation of your biological family. You are a manifestation of your spiritual family—your true family of origin. If you let Him, the Spirit of God will manifest the Father and the Son through you.

Do you find your identity in who you are or whose you are?

Nothing belongs to us, not even ourselves. But the exchange rate is unbelievable. All of our sin is transferred to Christ's account, and all of His righteousness is transferred to our account. God cancels our debt, writes us into His will, and calls it even!

Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.

Isn't that it, to be yourself and somehow, to belong?

Desire I think has less to do with possession than with participation

The best beginning reads is often the one with the wherewithal to admit that, living in the midst of what appears to be a confident, energetic culture, he among all the rest is lost.

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is the natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is a part of evolution.

The romantic wants to create a world where he or she will possess a fully integrated, unconflicted identity—where the answers to the questions Who am I? and What are we? are exactly the same.

The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.

How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?

No one can live a full life alone & isolated, least of all a writer

You are a child of mine, Born of my own design, And you bear the hard of life. No matter where you go, Oh, you will always know, That you've been made free in Christ, And you are a child of mine!

She insisted that she had not gone back to the land. She would say that we all live on the land, whether we know it or not.

After all, who would say life was good if they had no friend?

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.