We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I have given orders to my Death units to exterminate without mercy or pity men, women and children belonging to the Polish… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us,… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know,… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but it was deeper than that. A sense of belonging to a place I never… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“It had to do with the doubts. The same niggling doubts I always had about not belonging. I didn't feel like I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Whenever you have the opportunity to reach out in your community and educate kids and help give them a sense of belonging,… — Xzibit Copy Share Image
Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“You don’t know what that does to a person, never knowing a real home or belonging to anyone. It changes them and… — Kay Bratt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
At death, this physical separation is broken. The soul is released from its particular and exclusive location in this body. The soul… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. .… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
There's no denying for me that 'Emmerdale' is an amazing place to work. I've got so much to be grateful for. Over… — Kelvin Fletcher Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or… — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“They would make a world that reflected back to them the richness of their heritage, and in doing so discover a new… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood)… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Belonging is one of the things that makes life bearable, and it can be tough to look at a binary world and… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“When you don’t feel loved as a child you will search for belonging for the rest of your life because you are… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind.… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The reason “belonging” was so potent, so attractive, so much a part of the human yearning, was that it also meant safety,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
