Belonging Sense Quotes

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

I think a lot of people, even if you're not Asian, you go to your place of origin where your family comes from, and you get this sense of, 'Wow - people look like me and talk like me and treat me like their son in the stores and like a cousin in the restaurants.'

I have a real spiritual family.

Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.

Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, "Can I get a selfie?" No. It's where your wife and your family are. It's the emotional place where you feel like you're not away from it.

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

Home is not land and borders. It's about people you love.

In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.

You may leave a show, but you never leave that family.

It's a great club, Everton. You don't just go there to work; you have to be part of the family.

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.

Coming to Australia, it was just really magical for me. It just had the wow factor of a different sort of place and, more so, just being with a family that wanted to love me and to have me, because I knew back then, before coming to Australia, there was no way of getting back home or finding my real family.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

Home is where children find safety and security, where we find our identities, where citizenship starts. It usually starts with believing you're part of a community, and that is essential to having a stable home.

There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't take you away from it, then you grow up and remain within it.

I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from; I kind of like it.

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.