Finding Your Place Quotes

“I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another. When that sinks in...well you try a little harder. You dream a little broader. Your heart stretches a little farther and you find that you can't go back to the same place and make it fit. You become a person of ideas and seek out your own kind. And then it happens: One day you discover that staying the same is scary and changing has become your new home.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy,...”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Maybe you leave
because you long to know.
Maybe you leave
not because of longing
but because you must.
Or maybe you leave
simply to find the answers
you’ve held inside of you
all along.”
― Marisa Donnelly, Somewhere On A Highway

“But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?”
― Patrick Carman, Stargazer

“There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.”
― Deepak Chopra

“What is a woman?
Her brothers' sister, her father's daughter,
Her husband's wife, her children's mother”
― David Elliott, Voices