Cynthia Heimel Quotes

An outsider longing to be on the inside is the same as the soloist longing to work in an ensemble. I get great satisfaction in being a part of the proper - for me - community. I'm uncomfortable with various social groupings and clusterings. But when I'm in the right group, doing the right thing, I get as much satisfaction out of that as anyone who does it all the time.

There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

I don't belong to anything anymore and I want to feel like I belong to something.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

I have a big thing about needing to know that I belong - in my group of friends, in my family, in my industry.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I, too, would be easily brought back, surrounded and immersed, finding myself safe, somewhere in between.

People who like what I do come in all shapes and sizes. Not sure what the common denominator is per se. Oh, it's meeee! But to be embraced by a progressive community means something to me and this one feels like home.

You know, you spend your whole life feeling like you don't quite fit in anywhere. And then you walk into a room one day, whether it's at university or an office or some kind of club, and you just go, 'Ah. There they are.' And suddenly you feel at home.

I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.

I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary clue to the sense of belonging, and hence of his or her humanity.

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

When I was in elementary school, I watched 'Cinema Paradiso' 22 times and memorized the dialogue. In the movie, everyone had a place, even the bum who thought he owned the piazza. Eccentricities were celebrated, and no one was isolated.

As an adult, you want to connect with people, and you want to feel accepted.