“are certainly other causes of illness, numbing, and hurt, but the absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“Beauty is the replication and duplication of mind’s delusion. It is not uniqueness or exceptionality; it is the mentality of belonging and… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable… — Dolley Madison Copy Share Image
Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Maybe the problem with the world is, that people are too quick to judge. And out of desperation, the loneliness creeps in… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
HERE It’s- Can I say? It’s like the song of a family where everything’s always all right, it’s a song of belonging… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey;… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Show up for collective moments of joy and pain so we can actually bear witness to inextricable human connection. Women and men… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of an expatriate life. Stripped of romance, perhaps that's what being an expat is all about: a sense… — Sarah Turnbull Copy Share Image
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness -- an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness. — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“I've never been somewhere I belonged, but there are places where I think I could be happy. Like San Francisco. Well, do… — Heather Demetrios Copy Share Image
I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“True belonging has no bunkers. We have to step out from behind the barricades of self-preservation and brave the wild.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms,… — Laura Kaye Copy Share Image
“For a moment I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the pale of your origins, and… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
[...] The goal of Communism and the New World Order always has been the destruction of family. This forces people to get… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
“I felt the quiet hungering thing that comes inside when you return to the place of your origins, and then the ache… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day… — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I arise to day... In the name of Silence / Womb of the Word, / In the name of Stillness / Home… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I see the world as a temporary site-specific installation, structures, infrastructures, the foundation of our sense of belonging and our identity, seen… — Olivo Barbieri Copy Share Image
A few good words don't just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the… — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
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