Belonging Quotes - Page 7

• We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

  Richard Powers

  Self, Racism, Senses

  "Magic Powers" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2003.

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• In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Confused, Struggle, People

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak; and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Strong, Men, Order

  Alexis De Tocqueville (2013). “Democracy in America -”, p.340, Read Books Ltd

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• [...] The goal of Communism and the New World Order always has been the destruction of family. This forces people to get their sense of belonging from the elite-run media, political causes or products.

  Henry Makow

  Running, Media, Order

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• Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

  Agnes of Rome

  Beautiful, God, Christian

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• All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.

  John Calvin

  Men, Order, Names

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.169, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Family, Heart, Unity

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Bird, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.239, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Cells, Phones, Bears

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• Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Giving, Political

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• Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Tolerance, Different, Persons

  Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House

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• You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

  Alejandro Zambra

  Thinking, Like Love, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

  Paula Sharp

  Dimensions, Conformity, Isolation

  Paula Sharp (2000). “I Loved You All”, Hyperion

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• Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Childhood, Training, Groups

  Interview with Crystal Wilkinson, appalachianheritage.net. November 20, 2014.

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• Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence and conscience, of course. "Belonging" is another way of saying: "capitulating to."

  Kenny Smith

  Independence, Way, Clarity

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• Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned.

  Jessica Shirvington

  Perfect, Remember, Sometimes

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• American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

  Wallace Stegner

  Essentials, Individualism

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1987). “The American West as Living Space”, p.23, University of Michigan Press

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• A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wife, May, Miserable

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “Letters, conversations, and recollections [ed. by T.Allsop].”, p.172

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• Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

  Rennie Ellis

  Food, Beer, Long

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• The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

  Bette Midler

  Movie, Running, Men

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• Perhaps we can only truly serve those we are willing to touch, not only with our hands but with our hearts and even our souls. Professionalism has embedded in service a sense of difference, a certain distance. But on the deepest level, service is an experience of belonging, an experience of connection to others and to the word around us. It is this connection that gives us the power to bless the life in others. Without it, the life in them would not respond to us.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Distance, Heart, Compassion

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• This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

  Veronica Roth

  Teacher, Community, Leader

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Do not let me hear
  Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
  Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
  Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
  The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
  Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

  T. S. Eliot

  Humility, Men, Endless

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Empathy, Healthy, Psychological

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