Quotes about Belonging

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

When those that we have formerly been conversant with, are turning to God, and joining themselves to his people, it ought to be our firm resolution, that we will not leave them; but that their people shall be our people, and their God our God. It

Fundamentally we feel that we really belong to death already, and that every new day is a miracle.

I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't possess that remained the same and welcomed him.

I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home.

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home; we were created for something much better.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.