Quotes About Belonging

be here. The Apex Valley was his home, even though he lived in Chicago. This was where he wanted to be, and for three days, he and Angela hadn't

Seems like it's hard for an Asian bull dike with pink hair and a southern accent to fit in anywhere.

Everyone collects souvenirs, whether they call them that or not. They're evidence that we've taken part in the great dance of life – been places, seen things. They're connections between us and something grander and more eternal than we are. And they belong to us. Tourists shooting blurry mobile-phone-camera snapshots of the 'Mona Lisa' or Niagara Falls want to prove they were there, not to have art to hang on their walls.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity.

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If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

No outer teaching will affect human progress as much as our common interest in learning from one another. It is now a time for us to draw from the deep pool of our collective creative energy to craft a future to which we can all belong.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.

So it was that, figuratively speaking, Jews helped build the house from the foundations up, and then they were told that as Jews they were not welcome.

I wondered if small town people became smaller in order to fit. Perhaps they had to.

The great irony for a man in my position is how little use I have for organized religion. I am essentially a member of the unchurched. Yet, since high school I've felt a strong sense of vocation, a paradoxical longing and belonging which somehow resulted in my becoming a nonreligious religious leader. I was on the very fringe of religion,

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Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected — to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom — we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.

You know, Henry, we're the only people who get born into the enemy camp. I mean, black babies get born into black families, Jewish babies get born into Jewish families, but gay babies, we get born into straight families. How we survive it all is a miracle.

though we belong to this country as much as this country belongs to us, we only move through its rooms as momentary visitors, projecting our ideas on its walls, that the best we can do is live a good life, perhaps add a couple replicas of ourselves...

I try again, with the friendliest-looking man I can find. He's middle-aged and round-bellied, like his group of friends, all wearing University of Wisconsin sweatshirts emblazoned with the schools mascot, Bucky Badger.

Despite the fact that he was a sixty-one year old man when he was naturalized as an American citizen, it's amazing how fully he's been appropriated by this country.

I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

There is no land like the land of your childhood.

if you want to create the kingdom potluck at the margins, you must relentlessly pursue the sort of community that makes it possible for the marginalized to "bring a plate.

People, not places, make a life whole.

For as long as I can remember, I have felt a vast weight resting on me, a sadness that has always been part of me yet doesn't belong to me.