But belonging – the feeling that one belongs – is a tricky thing.
"What defines it is a sense of belonging, the people I meet as well as the places I've been.
Star Maker is both illuminated and darkened by a feeling of not belonging, the essence of exile.
Poetry in her own words: Poems about home and the idea of belonging, "the basics" of love and life.
It has something to do with authenticity and belonging — the Hawaii version of Sarah Palin's "real America".
In our global world, it is the local that will be the agent of political change, the place of belonging, the source of identity.
They give some sense of rootedness, belonging, the thing you imagine, watching the film, listening to Jane talk, that she has always craved.
Although it's a private member's bill, many fear that it is likely to be pushed through, albeit with a few cosmetic changes, by legislators belonging the ruling party.
Sources told the AFP news agency that all militants belonging the group had retreated from a besieged government compound by Sunday afternoon.
Crucially, the pilgrimages of musical fandom can offer this sense of belonging, the camaraderie between Finnish, Dutch, French, American and native fans on the annual Lee Brilleaux memorial walk being one example.
But on Saturday night more than a million people slept on sleeping bags, cardboard boxes and plastic bags in the open air of a vast, arid field belonging the University of Rome in preparation for the pope's Mass today.
