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“Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.”

Inspirational Felt Relationship Longing Carrie Belonging

Author:Tara Brach

“Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.”

Should Mind Believe Christian Moving Names Strong Church Numbers Authority Importance Catholic Moved Believer Ties Belonging Catholicism Catholic Church

Author:Saint Augustine

“Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.”

“There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.”

Mean States Government Justice Ordinary Advantage Criminals Administration Belonging Provinces State Government Federalism

Author:Alexander Hamilton

“Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.”

Source: The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure

“Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. It is a feeling of belonging to the sky, of owning and being owned - if only for a moment - by the air I breathe. It is akin to the well known claim of the swallow: each bird staking out his personal bug-strewn slice of heaven, his inviolate property of the blue.”

Ifs Feels Wells Sometimes Moments Feelings Seems Heaven Known Air Sky Strange Bird Claims Blue Property Mere Breathe Flying Flight Aviation Belonging Well Known Bugs Stimulus Exhilaration

Book:Song of the Sky

Source: Song of the Sky

“The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.”

Government Used Power Duty Property Belonging

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“I think I had a shyness about me, I think I discovered acting as a way to break out of that and as a way of belonging, a sense of being special.”

Thinking Way Acting Break Special Shy Belonging Shyness Break Out Being Special

Author:Michael C. Hall

“American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.”

Essentials Belonging Individualism

Book:The American West as Living Space

Source: The American West as Living Space

“The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.”

Has Beens Felt Community Depends Diversity Belonging Diverse Outsiders Promoting Dynamism

Book:My Beloved World

Source: My Beloved World

“We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.”

Ifs Needs Whole Happens Earth Process Wonder Creation Diversity Embrace Wounds Heal Belonging Revive

Author:Wangari Maathai

“I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.”

Ifs Thinking Mind I Can Hate Fronts I Hate Bother Belonging Distraction Nuts Because I Can Clutter

Author:Simon Cowell

“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 a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices”

People Feels Persons Left Community Devices Belonging Workplace Enthusiastic

Book:Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

Source: Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

“I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.”

Felt Levels Materialism Belonging

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“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 for the fulfiling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.”

Christ Loneliness Capacity Believer Meaningful Intimacy Intimate Belonging Fellowship Fellowship With God Christian Fellowship

Book:Daily in Christ

Source: Daily in Christ

“What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?”

Men Children Use Earth Mother Land Bird Property Fishes Possession Woods Beast Streams Native Belonging One Man Native American Ownership Native Land

Author:Massasoit

“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 the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.”

People Giving Values Courses Individual Numbers Brain Opinion Groups Willing Giving Up Safety Mathematical Explanation Belonging Great Value Safety In Numbers Belonging To A Group

Book:Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

Source: Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

“Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.”

People Government Political Dies Behinds Democracy Doors Information Belonging Closing Selective Misinformation Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors Closing Doors

Author: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 for others as much as you want it for yourself. ... It's knowing that no one is out to harm you. It means you will never be lonely.”

Want Mean Feelings Spiritual Purpose Quality Knowing Sweet Lonely Unity Harm Belonging

Author: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.”

Persons Violence Demand Belonging Domestic Violence

Book:Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“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 own firm or shaky sense of who you are.”

States Absolutes Who You Are Arise Firm Isolation Dimensions Belonging Conformity Within You Nothingness Non Conformity

Book:I Loved You All

Source: I Loved You All

“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 all probability, the water drains in its passage; so that as we drink the decoction of the living bodies at the Pump-room, we swallow the strainings of rotten bones and carcasses at the private bath - I vow to God, the very idea turns my stomach!”

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett: Sir Launcelot Greaves. Humphry Clinker

“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 is seriously flawed.”

Believe I Believe Religious Views Politician Regard Conviction Belonging Cherish Spheres Domain Flawed

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“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 world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.”

World Needs Real Order Understanding Impossible Needed Fit Cures Thrive Belonging Real World

Book:How to Be Alone: Essays

Source: How to Be Alone: Essays

“Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!”

Belonging Creeds Castes

Author:Kabir

“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 the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.”

World Heart Hands One Thing Tree Share Tragedy Dare Drawing Surrender Advertising Denial God Love Belonging Ritual Currency Ripe Ornaments Forgery Dead Trees

Book:The Recognitions: A Novel

Source: The Recognitions: A Novel

“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 it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.”

Ifs Way Sex Class Taken Taught College Performances Belonging Classroom Monk Taught Us Accountants Hygiene Semiotics

Book:Pre-faces & Other Writings

Source: Pre-faces & Other Writings

“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 is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior.”

Men Needs Has Beens Today Term Results Psychology Habit Calling Behavior Training Instinct Belonging Learned Behavior

Book:Behaviorism

Source: Behaviorism

“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 about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.”

Whole Accepting Healthy Members Empathy Oneself Psychological Mutual Belonging Continuing Infancy Sensing Parts Of A Whole

Author:Maureen O'Hara

“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 led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith: so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.”

Persons Has Beens Whole Christian Jesus Nations Christ Church Cutting Subjects Mankind Kings Jesus Christ Catholic Errors Empires Belonging Christian Faith Baptized Schism

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.”

Knows Want Life God Christian Life Is Christianity Knowing Creating Creator Missions Coaching Being Yourself Belonging Pastor Theologian Better Than You

Book:Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century

Source: Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century

“It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”

Sacred Mysterious Belonging Irrevocable

Book:Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Source: Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

“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 easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.”

Giving Helping Pain Together Enjoy Consciousness Development Endure Belonging Finest Sanctity Matrimony Constancy

Author:Fanny Lewald

“You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.”

Needs Interest Belonging

Author: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 certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.”

Two Self Reason Certain Nations Conditions Strange Locals Familiar Pleasant Charm Nationalism Belonging Superiority Desirable Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Devotee

Author:E. B. 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, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe.”

Whole Spiritual Universe Understanding Levels Talking Awareness Belonging Cosmic Ecological Interdependence Spiritual Awareness

Author:Fritjof Capra

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

Inspirational Struggle Worthy Vulnerability Belonging Imperfect Worthy Of Love Being Imperfect

Author:Brené Brown

“Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“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 inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.”

Trying Years Important Joy Certain Names Black White Love Is Creativity Uncertainty Vulnerability Belonging Black And White Definite Inability Good And Bad Fullness Discomfort Outrun

Author:Brené Brown

“The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!”

Mines Capitalism Gold Injustice Owners Belonging Socialist Alchemy Mills

Author:Bill Haywood

“Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.”

Source: Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political

“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 or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.”

School Values Games Given Sports Community Emotion Share Taste Degrees Pages Europe Investing Aspiration Britain Belonging I Have Learned Location Sociology Fieldwork

Author:Nick Hornby

“When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.”

Found Sports Support Player Football Clubs Soccer Finding Yourself Belonging Supporter Footballer Trophies Football Clubs Where You Belong Soccer Team

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.”

Life Inspirational Earth Sound Silence Sky Inspirational Life Clouds Spread Belonging Horizon

Author:Emily Carr

“The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.”

World Reality Voice Serious Reader Belonging

Book:Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Source: Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

“In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond.”

Men Humans Has Beens Differences Common Race He Man Periods Human Race Belonging Divided Membership

Author:Haile Selassie

“Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.”

Reason Quality Leader Military Judgment Calm Belonging

Author:Tacitus

“There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is no way to falsify or confirm a hypothesis, it belongs to the realm of metaphysical speculation, together with astrology and spiritualism. By that standard, most of the universe has no scientific reality -- it's just a figment of our imaginations.”

“The truth is you and I are in control of only two things - how we prepare for what might happen and how we respond to what just happened. The moment when things actually do happen belongs to God.”

Two Moments God Might Happens Truth Happened Truth Is Reactions Preparation Two Things Belonging Controlled Preparing Responding

Book:Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self

Source: Produced by Faith: Enjoy Real Success without Losing Your True Self

“I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.”

Knows Body Shame Longing Disappear Being True Burning Belonging Unwelcome Not Belonging

Author:Warsan Shire