Belonging Quotes - Page 4

• Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Moving On, Perseverance

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.150, Pan Macmillan

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• You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Love You, Finding Happiness

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• Books belong to their readers.

  John Green

  Book, Reader

  FaceBook post by John Green from Feb 02, 2014

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• Happiness, I think, has to come in the beginning, truly, from feeling a sense of well-being within yourself. To me it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

  Goldie Hawn

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  "Goldie Hawn Talks ‘MindUP’ and Her Mission to Bring Children Happiness". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2011.

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• Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

  Orson Scott Card

  Real, Eye, Hunger

  Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Ice, Identity

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.60, Bantam

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• Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Creativity, Joy

  "..is #PANPOLY a dilemma?" by Adrienne Wu, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2017.

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• Love is saying yes to belonging.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Love Is, Vision, Saying Yes

  Fritjof Capra, David Steindl-Rast, Thomas Matus (1991). “Belonging to the universe: explorations on the frontiers of science and spirituality”, Harper San Francisco

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• It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.

  James Caan

  Things In Life, Appreciate, Littles

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• It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.

  Deb Caletti

  Mean, Ideas, Comforting

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Beautiful, Country, Falling In Love

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1973). “The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).”

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• Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

  E. B. White

  Evil, Exemption, Grants

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.

  Dalai Lama

  Past, Self, Victory

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• I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

  J. Anthony Lukas

  Believe, Creativity, Thinking

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• Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.

  Neil T Anderson

  Meaningful, Loneliness, Fellowship With God

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (2000). “Daily in Christ”, Harvest House Publishers

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• If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Believe, Race, People

  "The Law". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Creating, Safety, Long

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Mysticism joins and unites; reason divides and separates. People crave belonging more than understanding. Hence the prominent role of mysticism, and the limited role of reason in human affairs.

  Thomas Szasz

  People, Understanding, Roles

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1990). “The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary”, Open Court Publishing Company

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• And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Feelings, Connections

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Falling In Love, Order, People

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• Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

  David Levithan

  Loneliness, Damage, Moments

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.60, Egmont UK

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• The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.

  DeVon Franklin

  God, Truth, Two

  DeVon Franklin (2011). “Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Bless, Refuge

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  When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

  Keith Richards

  Inspirational, God, Growing Up

  "Life". Book by Keith Richards and James Fox, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Country, Heart, Adventure

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