Best Belonging Proverbs
338 Belonging quotes by 276 unique authors
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I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church.…
— James McGreevey
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The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.
— Anthony Minghella
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Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used…
— Maria Monk
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I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was…
— Marilyn Monroe
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We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
— Plutarch
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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…
— Salman Rushdie
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In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that…
— Willard Scott
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In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.
— Vikram Seth
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Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
— Alexander Theroux
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People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are…
— Linus Torvalds
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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…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Looking out over the port of Dover, with the endless steam of boats coming in and out, every British citizen is reminded that belonging here…
— Julian Baggini
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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
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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor…
— William Shakespeare
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My actions are my only true belongings.
— Nhat Hanh
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We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.
— Daniel Quinn
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Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the…
— Gregory Maguire
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Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.
— Daniel Handler
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Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities.…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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I think one of the things you and I have to learn is that we have to live without the consolation of belonging to a…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood,…
— John O'Donohue
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As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their…
— Sidney Poitier
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Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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