“They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The House of Belonging is your birthright; it is part of your Happily Everafter, whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of… — Kathleen Moore Copy Share Image
I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
In all cultures, the family imprints its members with selfhood. Human experience of identity has two elements; a sense of belonging and… — Salvador Minuchin Copy Share Image
“My friends stood on the ground two feet below me, and miles away from understanding why I would want to sleep on… — Dee Williams Copy Share Image
“But what is identity really? What is it to ‘belong’ when we cast ourselves in the mold of a social group? I… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our… — Mick Dodson Copy Share Image
“Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
As the United States drifts from its Judeo-Christian foundation and as the state becomes ever more pervasive in American life, government could… — H. Wayne House Copy Share Image
In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has… — John O'Donohue 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 trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance -… — Tara Brach 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
Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“We have fallen out of belonging. Consequently, when we stand before crucial thresholds in our lives, we have no rituals to protect,… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our… — Bernard-Henri Levy Copy Share Image
Act as if you were separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal your world tomorrow. — Neale Donald Walsch 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