“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”

— Maya Angelou, book Letter to My Daughter

Source: Letter to My Daughter

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American author and poet 1928–2014

Emily Giffin book Where We Belong

Source: Where We Belong

“We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones”

Lisa Unger book Beautiful Lies

Source: Beautiful Lies

“If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing… We may only go in circles…”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“We are all carrying so many things in our life and inside ourselves. Often it feels there is no place to put them down. Where do you place the questions you carry”

Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer

Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself

“In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong.”

Masiela Lusha (1985) Albanian actress, writer, author

Comments on her work in Time of the Comet http://www.masielalusha.com/projects/comet.php

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

Maya Angelou book All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

Source: All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

“Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids.”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

“Don't give up.
You know it's never been easy.
Don't give up.
'Cause I believe there's a place,
There's a place where we belong.”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

Don't Give Up
Song lyrics, So (1986)

“At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 12 (p. 116)

“We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.”

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