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• Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

  Brené Brown

  Strong, Imperfect

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• Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

  Reggie McNeal

  Serving Others, Serving

  Reggie McNeal (2013). “Get Off Your Donkey!: Help Somebody and Help Yourself”, p.44, Baker Books

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• There is no house like the house of belonging.

  David Whyte

  House

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• The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

  Kalle Lasn

  Powerful, Promise, World

  "Truth In Advertising – An Interview With Kalle Lasn". Interview with Derrick Jensen, www.derrickjensen.org. July 1, 2001.

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  Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Effort, Inspire

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.

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• You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.

  Valery Giscard d'Estaing

  Needs, Interest

  "Quotes of the Day". Interview with James Graff, content.time.com. June 15, 2003.

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• When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

  Brené Brown

  Birthright, Anything Is Possible, Worthiness

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• You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Responsible

  "Revolution as a New Beginning: an Interview with Grace Lee Boggs". Interview with Adrian Harewood and Tom Keefer, uppingtheanti.org. July 22, 2003.

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• Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

  Brené Brown

  Brave, Imperfect, Sometimes

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin

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• Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christmas

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• Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Kindness, Two

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life”, p.155, Random House

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• We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.

  Patch Adams

  Inspiring, Giving, Community

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• People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

  Alfie Kohn

  People, Community, Workplace

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Path, Judgment

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• Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and difficulties in relationships, is different. But in each one there is a yearning for communion and belonging, but at the same time a fear of it. Love is what we most want, yet it is what we fear the most.

  Jean Vanier

  Pain, Past, Love Is

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.14, Paulist Press

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• Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

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• There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it. And that was, the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging. That's it. They believe they're worthy.

  Brené Brown

  Strong, Believe, Struggle

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• Being engaged in some way for the good of the community, whatever that community, is a factor in a meaningful life. We long to belong, and belonging and caring anchors our sense of place in the universe.

  Patricia Churchland

  Meaningful, Atheist, Caring

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• Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

  Phoebe Stone

  Hurt, Shoes, Awkward

  Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Romeo and Juliet Code”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Wings, Two

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• Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

  Salman Rushdie

  Knowing, Important, Stories

  "Salman Rushdie: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  Malcolm X

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Family, Christian, Religious

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• Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

  David Levithan

  Confusing, Would Be, Complicated

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