Belonging Quotes

She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged,...

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the ...

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves ...

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose ...

It’s well known that he who returns never left

By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being o...

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a d...

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, th...

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret...

You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter ho...

There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was ...

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, ...

They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more abo...

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. ...

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain su...

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately...

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend...

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you trea...

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such ...

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be ...

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embr...

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, ou...

It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, askin...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the...

How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had n...

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in ou...

Language is the only homeland.

Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to ...

Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in...

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened ...

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other til...

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or ...

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings...

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go.

Oblige me by telling me where I am.""That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only ...

I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.Aviger shrugged, and di...

And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical...

Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of...

I have sometimes sacrificed freedom in order to belong, but more often I have given up all hope of b...

Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it...

Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past...

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from...

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin...