Quotes About Belonging

My clothes can become appendages of my body.

It is impossible to separate the child from cultural influences; rather, it is a false problem.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

For all the communities available to us, there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner.

Because im dutch

Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

Can it beI am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentucky,looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

You are not "inferior." You are not "superior." You are simply "You.

You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Para algo soy puertorriqueño, es decir, isleño hasta cierto punto, negro negado y blanco sin serlo. Un híbrido, la mitad de algo, el doble del doble.

Bez te ta?ke, za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao kud da odeš, jer ne bi bio nigdje.

?ovjek mora da ima neko mjesto koje mu je drago zato što je njegovo, i zato što je zašti?eno, svijet je pun zamki kad si bez oslonca.

Pa u tome i jeste sve - vra?ati se. S jedne ta?ke na zemlji ?eznuti, polaziti i ponovo stizati. Bez te ta?ke za koju si vezan, ne bi volio ni nju ni drugi svijet, ne bi imao odakle da po?eš, jer ne bi bio nigdje. A nisi nigdje ni ako imaš samo nju. Jer tada ne misliš o njoj, ne ?ezneš, ne voliš. A to nije dobro. Treba da misliš, da ?ezneš, da voliš.

Šta to tražimo u tu?oj zemlji, osim svoje i tu?e nesre?e.

This solitude hurt pleasantly; it made me sorry, but I would not have traded it for anything. The ground smelled of the warm moisture of spring. Turtledoves landed in the poplars, pigeons were bathing in the shallow water, ruffling their feathers, splashing red and green droplets all around. A cowbell rang sluggishly somewhere in the distance. A familiar place, familiar colours, familiar sounds. I looked around: it was mine. I smelled the air: it was mine. I listened: it was mine.

Trees have no elsewhere.