“Responsibility is awareness, alertness, consciousness. Ego is just unconsciousness. They cannot coexist. As you grow more conscious you grow more towards light, and anything belonging to the world of darkness starts disappearing. Ego is nothing but darkness.” WorldLightGrowsConsciousnessResponsibilityDarknessAwarenessEgoConsciousDisappearBelongingCoexistUnconsciousnessAlertness Author:Rajneesh
“The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.” PoliticalFourNewsAdvantageClintonAccessCampaignsDataRevelationsBelongingVotersSoftwareOld FashionedControversyCoverageBad NewsConfidentialGlitches Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I've also never written about home in this way before. I guess a lot of it is subconscious and I am intuitively making these decisions when I'm writing. I wanted to communicate in the book that on one hand, being at home - both in our homes and in DeLisle - gives us a sense of belonging and family and safety, but at the same time, being in those places makes us less safe.” WayGivingWritingBookHomeHandsWantedDecisionWrittenSafeSafetyCommunicateBelongingSubconscious Author:Jesmyn Ward
“I hope that the relationship of the title to the novel [ What Belongs To You] gets more complex with each section of the book: that maybe it begins by resonating with the question of prostitution - to what extent can a body be commodified, what exactly are you renting or purchasing when you pay for sex - and deepens over the course of the book to address larger questions of ownership and belonging.” BookBodyCoursesSexPayNovelComplexesTitlesAddressesBelongingOwnershipSectionsProstitutionPurchasingResonating Author:Garth Greenwell
“I can't even think of the right word, but it's not "help." It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so "tribe" and "belonging" are irreducible needs, like love.” ThinkingNeedsGivingI CanHelpingPurposeOur LivesConnectionsBelongingTribesDnaLike LovePrerequisitesRight WordsPurpose And Meaning Author:Brené Brown
“I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.” KnowsWayStillsDifferentSelfValuesCompassionKindnessHeardMessagesConnectionsImportancePropertyBest WayVulnerabilityBelongingTrustedResearchersSelf CompassionSelf TrustTrust MyselfWholeheartedness Author:Brené Brown
“We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would be more love in the world. I'm not talking about rainbows and unicorns and '70s Coca-Cola commercials. I'm talking about gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. A good, goofy kind of love.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindWould BeCultureTalkingOpinionDangerousAcceptanceOppositesRadicalPostsBelongingRainbowNot TalkingUnicornKinds Of LoveGoofyCoca ColaRadical Acceptance Author:Brené Brown
“I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.” ThinkingSpaceTechnologyInternetOur SocietyBelongingAffectedNew TechnologyCellphone Author:Jia Zhangke
“I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.” ThinkingFeelsFeelingsMightYoungShareBelongingStrongestYoung Women Author:Petra Collins
“I was very fortunate. I had a great group of friends in my life, and family, and so I felt a sense of safety and belonging that ... as you grow older, you realize that not everybody does feel that. And there's particular certain groups of kids who always feel like outsiders. But I was very fortunate.” FeelsDoeKidsCertainGrowsFeltRealizingGroupsParticularSafetyFortunateBelongingOutsidersGroup Of FriendsLife And Family Author:Rib Hillis
“I love you for putting your hand into my heaped up heart and passing over all the frivolous and weak things that you cannot help seeing there, and for drawing out into the light all the beautiful and radiant things that no one else had looked quite far enough to find.” HeartEnoughHelpingHandsLightBeautifulBeautySeeingLove YouWeakDrawingFoolishPassingPassingsBelongingRadiantFrivolous Author:Roy Croft
“Destroying the nation state are mainly three things: the global economy, global communication technology and global culture. And this is where we are lost in the process. What could be something that can provide us a transversal political sense of belonging? At the end of the day, without an alternative we end up with populism in the name of very narrow identities.” EndsStatesPoliticalCultureThreeNamesLostNationsProcessTechnologyEconomyIdentityCommunicationAlternativesThe End Of The DayBelongingDestroyingThree ThingsGlobal EconomyPopulismCommunication Technology Author:Tariq Ramadan
“I've done a lot of going back and forth with my own writing, in particular translating my English language stuff into Ukrainian - poetry as well as prose. But I actually hate doing it. It is a thankless, mind-numbing process, additionally unpleasant for me because it reminds me of my ambiguous status of not belonging anywhere.” WritingMindWellsDoneHateLanguageStuffProcessMy OwnParticularProseBelongingTranslateEnglish LanguageBack And ForthAmbiguousUkrainianNumbingThanklessNot Belonging Author:Yuriy Tarnawsky
“I say the elite looks out of touch because it's kind of saying; look we'll manage all this for you. You know, we know best. We'll sort it all out for you. And then because people believe that doesn't meet their case for change and they want real change, social media and the way the relationship between people can come into a sense of belonging very quickly, that then is itself a revolutionary phenomenon. You see this around the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayWantBelieveLooksKindRealSocialCasesMediaSocial MediaManageAround The WorldRevolutionaryBelongingPhenomenonElitesReal Change Author:Tony Blair
“When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more troubling.That document lays out an ideological agenda that highlights Judge Samuel Alito in belonging to an alumni group at Princeton that opposed the admission of women and proposed to curb the admission of racial minorities.” LooksLightJobsJusticeRecordsGroupsJudgingLaysDepartmentMinoritiesAgendasBelongingApplicationDocumentsIdeologicalHighlightsAdmissionCurbPrincetonAlumni Author:Edward Kennedy
“I note that many British MEPs belonging to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have used all their time in Parliament to work against the institution of which they are members. I would not presume to advise them on what they should or should not do. However, since the UK could not leave the EU fast enough as far as they were concerned, I can imagine that they will not stay any longer than they have to.” ShouldI CanEnoughUsedPartyImagineMembersConcernedIndependenceInstitutionsNotesBritishBelongingImagine ThatParliamentAdviseUkip Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.” ThinkingLiteratureBelongingTopicsLike LoveLove Death Author:Alejandro Zambra
“Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.” WantStoriesFocusPiecesWrittenBelonging Author:Alejandro Zambra
“In the referendum - which was still decided to take place by the Crimea's old parliament - the majority of citizens voted for belonging to Russia. This is democracy, the people's will.” PeopleStillsDemocracyCitizensDecidedMajorityRussiaBelongingParliamentReferendumsCrimea Author:Vladimir Putin
“I'm always hearing warnings about keeping your belongings close to you [in Ho Chi Minh City] as thieves who ride motorbikes are adept at snatching things off a person as they ride by, but I personally have never seen it. Funny though, I don't hear folks talk about pick pockets but it's happened to me twice. Beware of that cute little sweetheart and stay away from those talented little hands.” LittlesPersonsHandsCitiesHappenedPicksFolksHearingCutePocketsBelongingWarningThievesSweetheartAdeptMotorbikeLittle Hands Author:Doug Rice
“Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.” YearsWellsTwoTenTaxesOrdinaryRedArmyPropertyIncludingSoldierBarsOfficialsBelongingUniformsCoatsFilesCommandersBlanketChairmanCollectorsCottonCollarsMaoLandlordRed Army Author:Edgar Snow
“[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.” WorldWayWritingYearsKindPersonsIdeasStoriesLastsGuyWhiteFictionCrazyMiddleEnlightenmentThirdsAll KindsGenreBelongingSixtySeventiesMiddle AgedCanonCrazy ThingsEpitomeWhite GuysThird PersonBrash Author:Emily Barton
“There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular theological stream or tradition, which is shaped in important respects by particular thinkers and their work, particular arguments and ideas, a particular community (especially, particular church communities, denominations, and so on), particular liturgies or ways of worshipping and living out the Christian life, and particular confessions that inform the practices of these communities.” WayImportantIdeasChristianNamesCommunityChurchPracticeParticularArgumentTraditionChristian LifeLabelsStreamsBelongingThinkerConfessionConstraintsTheologicalDenominationsLiturgyChurch Community Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].” FeelingsChinaSecureBelongingThis Society Author:Ai Weiwei
“Attending church is one thing, belonging is another.” ChurchOne ThingBelongingAttendingAttending Church Author:John Henrik Clarke
“Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.” NeedsLongKnownEnvironmentRiskStudentsCreatingLong TimeSafetyMeetingsContributionBelongingClassroomSecond PlaceEncourage Students Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.” ThinkingGivingDoeCertainAmountSatisfactionBelonging Author:Khushwant Singh
“I've never written a song about DNA or anything that I work on. But I just think that DIY aspect, and the creativity and the belonging and acceptance is what drew me in.” ThinkingSongCreativityWrittenAcceptanceAspectBelongingDnaDiy Author:Milo Aukerman
“If you have some legally sanctioned relationship with the bundle of legal rights traditionally belonging to marriage and governing authority has slapped a label on it, whether it is civil union or domestic partnership or whatever label it's given, it is nonetheless tantamount to marriage.” IfsGivenRightsAuthorityUnionsLabelsBelongingPartnershipGoverningBundlesLegal Rights Author:Lance B. Wickman
“When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.” MenWantPersonsTwoMomentsHappensYoungDesireHalfWonderfulSensesYoung ManBelongingOrientation Book:Complete Works Source: Complete Works
“Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.” ThinkingLooksSchoolHumanityCan DoQualityGreat ThingsBelongingSchoolingAvailability Author:Amartya Sen
“If you're writing a book where you want to make a positive truth claim, then you should absolutely call it nonfiction or memoir. If you don't want to make that claim - if that's not what's important to you; if you're more interested in storytelling and interiority and interpersonal relationships than in objective, checkable facts about the world - then why wouldn't you call it a novel, and take advantage of what that gets you, of the extra freedom, of belonging to the tradition of the novel?” IfsWorldWantShouldWritingImportantBookFactsNovelAdvantageTraditionClaimsMemoirObjectivesStorytellingExtrasBelongingNonfictionWriting A BookWhat's ImportantInterpersonalInterpersonal Relationship Author:Elif Batuman
“All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.” PeopleWorldShouldWarRealSeemsTodayDesireStrongIdentityAbsurdRelateBelongingVery StrongWorld TodayStrong DesireEthnic Identity Author:Jaron Lanier
“Quebecers are happy in Canada. We are benefiting economically and fiscally from belonging to Canada. We're proud of being Canadian. It's a great country. Everybody on Earth envies our Canadian citizenship.” CountryEarthProudEnvyCanadaBelongingCitizenshipGreat Country Author:Philippe Couillard
“I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever.” PeopleThinkingWantTryingWellsDoeReasonHomeBigsMotherDrinkSickStressPlantBeerGrassDamnNo ReasonBelongingComing HomeJailJointsStressedGetting HighGet WellHempStressed OutStress Reliever Author:Willie Nelson
“I love our country. My dad served in the army. I always grew up with a song sense of belonging as an American. But I was also in the counterculture and I was coming from a place of fearing the police. So I was anti-establishment, but also loving your country. It's kind of an ironic sort of upbringing.” KindCountrySongGrewDadGrew UpArmyPoliceMy DadOur CountryBelongingIronicEstablishmentUpbringingLoving YouCounterculture Author:Mike Dirnt
“This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes it feels like it's real, the appeal. As we've seen with ISIS, it's not always the devout who are getting into it; it's just people looking for a sense of belonging. The more they feel they're up against, the more intensity the cause has. It's an epic clash of cultures, and both sides are playing that up, but it's human beings disaffected, detached, and lonely.” PeopleFeelsHumansRealSometimesMightSchoolCultureCausesSidesHuman BeingsLonelyTerrorismRelateAppealsShootingBelongingIntensityQuestsEpicBoth SidesIsisControversialClashDetachedSchool Shooting Author:Andrew Bird
“The novel tradition is the closest thing I have to a religion, and being a part of that tradition means a lot to me. I don't really see - I never have seen - why I should have to forfeit that feeling, or hope, of belonging, just because the stories I want to tell are close to my own experience.” MeanFeelingsNovelTraditionBelonging Author:Elif Batuman
“I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.” PeopleThinkingTryingMeanEyeEnjoyTermGrowing UpAffectionSelfishGrantedGenerousBelongingInterfereLiving Alone Author:Boy George
“The search for meaning can be through religion but it can also be through art and tapestry. It can be through prayer but it can also be through music and sport. It's whatever provides you with that sense of belonging.” ArtSportsPrayerBelongingTapestry Author:Justin Rutledge
“It's not about being proud of Sweden; it's just a sense of belonging. Even if you've lived in a place for a long time, those first formative years are going to be a part of you forever, and it's something you can't replace.” LongForeverProudBelongingBe Proud Author:Bill Skarsgard
“I left most of my stuff there in my apartment in the suburbs of Damascus. My apartment was completely destroyed by a bomb in 2013. I lost everything there. I cried not only for losing my apartment and my belongings, I cried for our whole people. I feel really sorry for the people in Syria. My apartment or my property is a very, very small part of this big disaster. Syria looks like hell today. It's completely hell and chaos.” PeopleTodayHellLosingPropertyChaosSorryDisasterBelongingApartmentSyria Author:Osama Alomar
“Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.” PeopleThinkingCountryTraditionWesternGladBelongingGlobalization Author:David Brooks
“I have always been actively involved in my community, belonging to organizations that promote the interests of Latinos. But I also know that the issues we confront are the same issues, in many respects, as the larger community. So what we do helps not just us but everybody.” HelpingInterestCommunityBelongingLatino Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.” PeopleThinkingSpiritualBrainDutyIntellectualTraditionLoyaltyFaithfulBelongingInfidelityFidelity Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“My friends don't understand, whether it's belonging to a country club or playing golf, or whatever a vacation is, that should make you happy. And it's like, "No, happiness is much deeper." I think people have to struggle to find things that give them purpose, the real meaning. Why am I alive? Why did God bless me with these skills or these resources? What am I to do with them? If God just lets some person be very fortunate, let's say financially, it's kind of a funny God.” PeopleThinkingGivingKindRealCountryPurposeStruggleGolfBelongingBlessVacationMake You HappyGod Bless Author:Les Wexner
“There's something about New York. You can get a nice feeling of belonging as a writer here. It's probably the best city on Earth like that. I miss the wisecracking of New York.” FeelingsEarthNiceMissingBelonging Author:Geoff Dyer
“Whenever I hear somebody go, "I feel so religious right now!" I'm like, "Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?" There's no spiritual connotation to that word whatsoever. And while it binds you to a rope, because it's about belonging, it alienates you to others. That can't be part of God's plan, if there is a God.” SpiritualReligiousBelonging Author:James Callis
“I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.” WritingDesireCommunityGriefBelongingHost Author:Danzy Senna
“I take advantage of the ability to fly with helicopters belonging to the federal police force, and this privilege is consistent with rules that have been in place for decades. A chancellor must be accessible at all times and be in a position to execute their duties as best they can. I must have the ability to immediately return to Berlin if necessary. There are also security considerations.” AbilitySecurityDutyPoliceAll TimeConsistentConsiderationBelonging Author:Angela Merkel