Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

I never felt at home. I stuck outIn New York City, especially in Greenwich Village, down among the cranks and the misfits and the one-lungers and the has-beens and the might've beens and the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats, I have always felt at 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.

I've never really fit in anywhere.

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 think that is important, to not make people feel alien.

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

Japan took me in as one of their own and treated me like one of their own.

I am so passionate about representation because, growing up, I didn't see myself, and now people can say, 'I see myself there.' We're all trying to find where we are.

I don't know if I'm ever considered a part of the community I'm in.

You always want to be the person who doesn't need to be included, but it feels damn good to be among you people. My first Broadway show was Master Class, and I saw Audra McDonald. The one that sealed the deal was Ragtime, with Marin Mazzie. My first big role was with John Lithgow, and he taught me the ropes. Norm Lewis sang the night I met my husband. It makes me feel like I have a family.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

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

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.

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.

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 even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something not just have a part in something.