Belonging Quotes

“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.”

“He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.”

“When I was at home I was in a better place”

“Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end.”

“A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.”

“A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.”

“Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.”

“A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.”

“No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.”

“O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.”

“The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.”

“Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.”

“Where the earth is, we are.”

“Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.”

“Well, at least you have led us to the small mailman and the one who smells of prunes." - "UP”

“This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me”

“Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home.”

“I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.”

“With all my fans I got a family again.”

“Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.”

“Hendersonville is home because I live there and I work there. But when I come back to Pennsylvania and see the crowds and the landscape, it's such a rush. It just feels like home.”

“Give the brethren a chance to do something, anything, no matter how small or unimportant. A brother convinced that he is helpful is enthusiastic.”

“We are the Sun with all the differentkinds of Light.”

“Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.”

“Any place that we love becomes our world.”