Belonging Quotes - Page 3

• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence.

  Thomas Berry

  Community, Damage, World

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• Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.

  John Sweeney

  Ideas, Creating, People

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• Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

  Tara Brach

  Inspirational, Relationship, Longing

  "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha". Book by Tara Brach, October 1, 2000.

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• We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity and purpose.

  Carmen Lawrence

  Giving, Identity, Groups

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• There is a reason the word belonging has a synonym for want at its center; it is the human condition.

  Jodi Picoult

  Want, Reason, Human Condition

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.

  Leonard Sweet

  Life, God, Christian

  Leonard Sweet (2002). “Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

  Plutarch

  Life, Nature, Shoes

  "Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

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• In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and a sense of being separate. The laboratory in which these ingredients are mixed and dispensed is the family, the matrix of identity.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Two, Identity, Culture

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• You don't need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, I Hate You, Needs

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Sep 04, 2011

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• The world belongs to the people who say, 'I can'.

  Russell Simmons

  People, World, I Can

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Feb 29, 2016

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• My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

  Nhat Hanh

  Karma, Action, Consequence

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Farewell, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2005). “Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography”, p.168, Pomegranate

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• I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.

  Jean Rhys

  Life, Being Yourself, I Dont Care

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• When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?

  Jenny Han

  Thinking, Differences

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else.... If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.

  Phil McGraw

  Powerful, Kids, Acceptance

  Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Memories, Native American, Doe

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• Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

  Brené Brown

  Giving Up, Joy, Vulnerable

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  "Loneliness and the Sacred Web of Life" by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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• The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

  Robert Biswas-Diener

  Good Life, Sadness, Psychology

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• The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Spiritual, Participation, All Time

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• Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

  Willard Scott

  Positive, Family, Unique Characteristics

  Willard Scott (1983). “The Joy of Living”, Ballantine Books

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• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

  Walt Whitman

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.

  William Glasser

  Fun, Freedom, Survival

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