#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.”

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

“I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member”

“Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.”

“Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.”

“We Are All the SameListen to the reeds as they sway apart;Hear them speak of lost friends.At birth, you were cut from your bed,Crying and grasping in separation.Everyone listens, knowing your song.You yearn for others who know your name,And the words to your lament.We are all the same, all the same,Longing to find our way back;Back to the one, back to the only one.”

“Any place you love is the world to you.”

“If I Separated MyselfFrom You . . . I Would TurnEntirely Thorn!”

“It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve”

“To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.”

“No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.”

“You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

“There's no question this is where I want to live. Never has been.”

“This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.”

“Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.”

“The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.”

“You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.”

“I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.”

“Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.”

“Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.”

“The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.”

“My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.”

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.”

“Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.”

“and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.”