Quotes about Belonging
I needed no snake to tell me I didn't belong in that family or house, or life. I was the tree of knowledge.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no place anymore. Probably if they dropped a bomb and there wasn't any food left on the planet, you'd still keep feeling hungry too.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Some people say religion is finding yourself, and some people say it's losing yourself in a crowd.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Golden children ran wild over a field of dead great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, and the bones must have wanted to rise up and knock together and rattle with joy. I have never seen a town that gave so much—so much of what counts—to its children. More than anything else I wished I belonged to one of these living, celebrated families, lush as plants, with bones in the ground for roots. I wanted pollen on my cheeks and one of those calcium ancestors to decorate as my own.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Nothing is possible without love.
- Carl Jung
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
- John Wooden
Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter.
- Hill Harper
Some of you are sitting at home saying, 'I don't need a church to love God,' and I am here telling you that you are so wrong.
- Francis Chan
The one thing everybody's looking for is unconditional love. We all need somebody to love us just the way we are
- Joyce Meyer
I was always in places where I was widely accepted, approved and loved and I was finally in a place where people did not approve of me, did not accept me and did not love me. It was killing me.
- Tullian Tchividjian
No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there-well or poorly.
- Joseph Brodsky
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life. Right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real. Do you understand?
- Ernest Cline