Belonging Quotes

Belonging Quote of the day

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

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.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!

Your actions are your only true belongings.

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.

Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

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

Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

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

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

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

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

Language is the only homeland.

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

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.

Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.

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

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

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.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

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

I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.

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

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

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.

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

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.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!