Best Belonging Sayings

338 Belonging quotes by 276 unique authors

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in… — Alfie Kohn
I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. — George Eliot
Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity… — Neil T Anderson
There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why… — Gregory Berns
Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is… — Damon Keith
Unity is a spiritual quality. It's the sweet feelings of peace and purpose that come from belonging to a family. ... It's wanting the best… — Mary N. Cook
They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them. — Jodi Picoult
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… — Paula Sharp
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; through which, in… — Tobias Smollett
How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the… — Jonathan Franzen
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… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share… — William Gaddis
As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If… — Jerome Rothenberg
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today… — John B. Watson
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… — Maureen O'Hara
Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been… — Pope Leo XIII
It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How… — Cheryl Strayed
In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more… — Unknown Author
You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging — Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a… — Elwyn Brooks White
At the deepest level of ecological awareness you are talking about spiritual awareness. Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being imbedded in a larger whole,… — Fritjof Capra
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. — BrenÃ© Brown
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My… — BrenÃ© Brown
I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games… — Nick Hornby

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