Quotes about Belonging

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

Believe me, all of you, the best way to help the places we live in is to be glad we live there.

Superficially so like them all, and so eager to outdo them in detachment and adaptability, ridiculing the prejudices he had shaken off, and the people to whom he belonged, he still kept, under his easy pliancy, the skeleton of old faiths and old fashions. He talks every language as well as the rest of us, Susy had once said of him, but at least he talks one language better than the others.

The conventionality of the tribe is far more important than the happiness of the individual. In fact, the happiness of the individual ideally should rest in perpetrating the conventionality of the tribe.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Love breaks the hold of individualism; it builds new communities out of the ashes of broken and fragmented relationships.

You feel like an outcast. You don't belong. You feel naked. While everyone else is walking around with their clothes on, you feel exposed and vulnerable. You are seen, and what others see is not pretty. You feel unclean. Something is wrong with you. You are dirty. Even worse, you are contaminated. There is a difference between being a bit muddy and harboring a deadly, contagious virus.

Imagine how aloneness could gradually be banished.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.