Quotes About Belonging

Buying kids booze was against the law but hell, it wasn't the worst thing he'd done. After that, it turned into a thing—they'd see him and wave, and they knew his name and let him be one of theirs, one of them. They cut a small place in the world for him to belong.

All too often people are not aware of the trait-----whether positive or negative----they have absorbed from their families. You may feel contempt for your family's pretentiousness and be unaware that you have absorbed some of the same mannerisms. Awareness of the trait could easily lead to it's amelioration. Similarly, a positive awareness of connectedness to family can give you a sense of belonging and a feeling of continuity that will strengthen your own sense of identity.

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.

I believe that even though each person has an individual and unique self, the self means nothing outside the context of community or meaningful contact with other people.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed

r?ht?ma ayak bast??? ilk günden beri yer de?i?tirip duran duygular?na, "Yurduna Dönmek" sözü az geliyor. Dönmek, ba?l? ba??na bir memleket...

Their faces said : This is your home; and I . I never come home, I never go away. And they all answered : Stay.

I miss it if I'm not in it for any length of time; I don't feel comfortable. I want trees and I want frequent rain.

Awakening is realizing that you are the citizen of the universe, rather than identifying yourself as the citizen of your own country or that of the world.

Egypt belongs to the Egyptians, the true African and black identity, even before Abraham began his prophecy.

Everything belongs to us. Because even you, cannot be excluded from this general equation.

Go and find yourself, mostly your self-worth, through the history of your nation.

My culture acts as my compass in life.

My identity is that I am an African, even though I consider myself to be the citizen of the universe.

Nationalism is so beautiful for nationalists. At the same time, you are really opposed to the unification of the world.

There can't be the nation without culture and culture without the presence of a nation in the first place.