Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Belonging Quotes
BelongingEngagement Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.
AcceptanceBelongingComfortFamilyHome Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
BelongingBoundaryEnvironmentInteractionsPersonal Identity The environment is everything that isn't me.
BelongingNatureSolitudeWilderness The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
BelongingEmpathyImmigrationNational IdentityStrangerhood My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
BelongingCommunityIdentityNostalgiaTerritoriality Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.
BelongingEmotional HealthHuman NeedsLoveWell-being A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
BelongingLonelinessRelationship I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
BelongingLegacyLovePatriotism It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
BelongingOvercoming ObstaclesPersistenceRejectionSelf-Identity I can remember getting rejected systematically by casting directors as a young kid. I felt like the biggest outsider there ever was; that I'd never belong in that club.
BelongingChildhoodHomelandNostalgia I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.
BelongingImperfectionLoveStruggleWorth You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
BelongingHomePeace I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called 'Equis.' And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, 'I'm home.' I felt really at peace here.
BelongingIndependenceNonconformityRejection Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.
AuthenticityBelongingConnectionCourageSelf Worth Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.
BelongingLovePotentialSelf Worth When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.
BelongingIdentitySelf-DiscoveryTransformation It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.
BelongingConnectionLiteratureUtopia Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
BelongingConnectionEnthusiasmInspirationPassion Every time I come to Europe, I'm just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.
AcceptanceBelongingGraceLove However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.
BelongingCommunityCultureIdentityTradition Supporting Rangers, being in an Orange Lodge, that whole life - that's a valid culture.
BelongingBoundariesDiversityIdentityInclusion There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
BelongingConformityIndividuality In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
