Veronica Roth Quotes

Something has been lost, a special feeling of patriotism, of belonging, is vanishing.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

We are what make up society.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

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 notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

Give me your support, and I'll fight for you... I'll fight for you because I am you.

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

The feeling of community… is really what gives a sense, a purpose to a society.

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

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

There is no house like the house of belonging.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought property. I just move between temporary base camps. I know that the very notion of home, of having a family or community, is a hard one for me to embrace.

I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are.

To me, a person's identity is composed of both an 'I' and a 'we.' The 'I' finds itself in love, work, and pleasure, but it also locates itself within some meaningful group identity - a tribe, a community, a 'we.' America is too big and bland a tribe for most of us.

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 bring my past I bring my future I bring my rights and I bring my song I stand atop the Hacienda and shout We belong Here. We belong.

Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.

Without social identity, there is, in fact, no society.

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

So many of us feel like we're misfits until we finally find our tribe - the other people who are are strange in the same way - and suddenly everything clicks.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.