Quotes about Belonging

even if I were to actually lose everything - my house, my finances, my friends, my reputation, my position - it really wouldn't matter in the end, because I would still have God's grace. I would still be the Father's adopted and beloved son. And that would be enough.

I don't like belonging to another person's dream

When God decided this world needed you, He created a village to surround you, and His presence is ever with you.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.

We were not placed on this earth to walk alone.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude…

everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're beastly to one.

Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channeling of impulse and energy. But everyone belongs to everyone else, he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.

At Malpais he had suffered because they had shut him out from the communal activities of the pueblo, in civilized London he was suffering because he could not escape from those communal activities, never be quietly alone.