“I'm safe inside this container called me. With a little click, the outlines of this being—me—fit right inside and are locked neatly away. Just the way I like it. I'm where I belong.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“This is why true belonging is a function of courage and vulnerability. Being who we are is about making brave choices. All day long.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“True belonging doesn't require that we change who we are; it requires that we be who are.”— Brené Brown, twitter.com
“Both. I want to stay. I want to leave. I am three oceans away from my soul.”— Nayyirah Waheed, amazon.com
“We’re so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.”— Charles de Lint, amazon.com
“We’re all misfits here... Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That’s where art comes from... From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of…”— Terri Windling, amazon.com
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.”— Margaret Mead, amazon.com
“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com
“She never felt like she belonged anywhere, except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com