"People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no person can function isolated from the group. When you create a team, any kind of team, inclusion is fundamental. Without every member feeling deeply that he or she belongs to that group there is no team."

Belonging, Teamwork, Unity, Emotion

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"People who feel excluded get angry and act out their anger in the team. No man is an island, no person can function isolated from the group. When you create a team, any kind of team, inclusion is fundamental. Without every member feeling deeply that he or she belongs to that group there is no team."

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"He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go home. And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough. He pulled out his book."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it."

John Updike, American Novelist

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"It's lovely to be going home and know it's home. I love green gables already, and I've never loved any place before. Oh, Marilla, I'm so happy."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting."

Katie McGarry, American Author

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"I give her the only honest and true answer I have.'You're where I want to be."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

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"People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up."

Gayle Forman, American Journalist

Belonging, Existence, Life, Truth

"Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

Belonging, Heart, Journey, Home, Soul

"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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