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

Belonging, Existence, Life, Truth

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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."

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"If you are in a movie theater, you can look two people down and they are laughing while you are laughing or you can look three people down and they love that song that you love. It is living proof that you are not alone."

Stephen Chbosky, American Author

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"Mine': what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whole being, which is mine only so far as I belong to it. My God is not the God that belongs to me, but the God to whom I belong; and so, too, when I say my native land, my home, my calling, my longing, my hope. If there had been no immortality before, this thought that I am yours would be a breach of the normal course of nature."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"I promise, Matthias. I'll take you home.""Nina," he said, pressing her hand to his heart. "I am already home."

Leigh Bardugo, Israeli Author

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"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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"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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"But even if every house looked identical-if all the furnishings were the same- it still wouldn't feel like yours.That's because home isn't where you are. It's who you're with."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Belonging, Home, Love, People

"Would he ever come back? He wondered. The water filled his ears with its own rush, and he was comforted by the realization that, in fact, he never left."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

Belonging, Existence, Comfort, Presence

"My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won't be reversed: by now the Jonathan's as much an American as I am."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"The heartland lies where the heart longs to be. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to find the true place to plant it."

Vera Nazarian, American Writer

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"Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing."

Self-Growth

"I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting."

Emotion

"But sometimes the memories feel so real, so visceral, so personal, that I confuse them with my own."

Psychology

"Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug."

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"You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)"

Life

"A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits."

Motivation

"When we got back home, Gramps dropped me off and enveloped me in a hug. Normally, he was a handshaker, maybe a back-patter on really special occasions. His hug was strong and tight, and I knew it was his way of telling me that he'd had a wonderful time."Me, too, Gramps, I whispered."

Family

"In a funny way, Dad was always a bow-tie wearer, always a little more traditional than you might imagine. Because even though he had blue hair and tattoos and wore leather jackets and worked in a record store, he wanted to marry Mom back at a time when the rest of their friends were still having drunken one-night stands. "Girlfriend is such a stupid word," he said. "I couldn't stand calling her that. So, we had to get married, so I could call her "wife"'."

Relationship

"Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now, it's frozen shut."

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