Quotes About Belonging

do like you,' said Miika, in his quiet mouse language, 'even though you are not a dairy product.

In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one. You are forgetting your root life.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

It is lonely, this world, without a friend.

She felt the strangeness of being connected to the world through someone else.

seemed the more lives she lived, the harder it was to feel at home anywhere.

Foundation Other people matter. But there is no point becoming someone else in order to find friends. In order to find the people who like you, it is first necessary to be you.

After all, I looked like them. Maybe this was another human trait. Their ability to turn on themselves, to ostracize their own kind. If that was the case, it added weight to my mission. It made me understand it better.

She couldn't even manage 'cat owner'. Or 'one-hour-a week piano tutor'. Or 'human capable of conversation'.

Books might be one way to recover some space. Stories. Fiction. When I was eleven, friendless, struggling to fit in at school, I read The outsiders and Rumble Fish and Tex by S.E. Hinton, and I suddenly had friends again. Her books were friends.. And the stories they inhabited could be places I could hide inside. And feel safe. In a world that can get too much, a world where we are running out of mind space, fictional worlds are essential. They can be an escape from reality.

You can live that life as if you've always been there and the book will never be returned." - Mrs. Elm

Sometimes just to say you're truth out loud is enough to find others like you

My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

Who you come from is part of who you are. How do you just let that be stolen from you?

I'm sick of belonging to an Order that wants to change the world but can't even change itself. I'm tired of the bullshit.

There is s no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. We are a nation, not a hodge-podge of foreign nationalities. We are a people, and not a polyglot boarding house. Theodore Roosevelt

Our Father. Intimating, that we must pray, not only alone and for ourselves, but with and for others; for we are members one of another, and are called into fellowship with each other.

Some people are hungry for comfort; others are hungry to belong; still others for success, sex, safety, adventure, security, travel. To be human is to be hungry. Do you know what you are hungry for?

I wasn't one of the cool kids by any stretch. I just bumbled along really.

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace.

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

Povera camera, sei mai stata abitata? Come fa freddo qui, come ti abito poco. Ci sto forse per cancellare tutte le tracce del mio soggiorno? Di nuovo, di nuovo, camminando e rimanendo sempre qui, un altro paese, altre città, altre strade, lo stesso paese.

There is a paradox here: the paradox of a total being which is, in advance, everything which we can be and do, and yet which would not be it without us, and which thus needs to be augmented by our own being. Our relation with being involves a double sense, the first according to which we belong to it, the second according to which it belongs to us.