Quotes about Belonging

Then, with many false starts and blank feet, returning and filling and erasing painfully as she went, she began to write again, knowing with a deep inner certainty that somehow, after long and bitter wandering, she was once more in her own place. Here, then, at home …

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that?—I love you—I am at rest with you—I have come home.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are.

I'm a Jersey girl, but I went to college in L.A. I can connect with the feeling of wanting to come home.

You don't need me or Gus to make you a princess. You are loved by God and that alone makes you royalty.

but leaving me out was like being kicked out of the family.

Family is the most valuable thing on earth, though Lord knows I didn't live my life with that conviction. Remember that family isn't just blood kin but anyone who fits into your heart.

Remember that family isn't just blood kin but anyone who fits into your heart.

I am a citizen of the world, or no world at all!

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.