Quotes About Belonging

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.

So it is not fundamentally possible to be alone. Fundamentally, man has to be with other people. If man becomes totally, totally alone, then he is lost.

You spend your whole life believing that you will always be on the outside or on the borderline. You struggle and struggle, and yet it all seems to be in vain. And then, suddenly, you are allowed inside and lifted up into the light.

I saw how pure, in a way, they were – no matter what they had done. Each in their own way they had tried to stay what they were. Not like me, who had never been anything, and so had been trying all my life to be someone else. To come inside. I saw that they understood this, too. That they understood it and that it was okay. That, even so, I mattered, come what may.

Maybe a person can be born to the wrong people," he said. "Maybe a person should have been put somewhere else.

And in each loss was some further exile. Celine wondered just then what the word "home" must mean to her. Probably a space within the relative safety of her own skin.

In Fuling I was always extremely conscious of my appearance, because every day I was confronted by the ways in which I looked different from the locals, but now in these desert towns I saw people with noses and hair and eyes like mine. For the first time I realized the full importance of race, not just in the way it divided people, but also in the sense of feeling a link to those who looked like you.

He died and rose from the dead saying, "My Father is your Father." You are not an orphan. You are not an extra. You have His name.

Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our fatherís house?

You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”

Then we will give you our daughters and take your daughters for ourselves. We will dwell among you and become one people.

You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.

I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.

along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

But no one may consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, because a firstborn belongs to the LORD. Whether it is an ox or a sheep, it is the LORDís.

“Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel in place of every firstborn Israelite from the womb. The Levites belong to Me,

Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.

Each manís sacred gifts are his own, but whatever he gives to the priest will belong to the priest.”

In this way you shall separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites, and the Levites will belong to Me.

“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”

The firstfruits of everything in their land that they bring to the LORD will belong to you. Every ceremonially clean person in your household may eat them.