Raising little cross-cultural kids of my own has been a life-changing experience. I love to read about others' experiences and find comfort in seeing how many of us share the same feelings whether we have lived in 2 or 15 different countries, whether we moved for jobs, love or political reasons.
1. True belonging doesn't require you to change who you are, it requires you to be who you are. Brené Brown.
2. I didn't give my children a hometown, but I gave them the world. Terry Anne Wilson
3. A global soul is a person who has grown up in many cultures at once - and so lived in the cracks between them. Pico Iyer
4. so, here you are. too foreign for home, too foreign for here. never enough for both. Ijeoma Umebinyuo
5. Our homes are not defined by geography or one particular location, but by memories, events, people and places that span the globe. Marilyn Gardner
6. Culture shock is not fatal. Robin Pascoe
7. Are you home for good? I am home, for now. Sean Ghazi
8. Even though I am different, I am okay. Isabelle Min
10. I am not from a place. I am from people. Elizabeth Liang.
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