Belonging Quotes - Page 19

• 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 Church.... Of one thing I am certain. The religion of the future will have to be extremely ascetic, and by that I don't mean just going without food and drink.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Thinking, Church

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

  Damon Keith

  Government, Doors, People

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• 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.

  Mary N. Cook

  Spiritual, Lonely, Sweet

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• In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else—my reputation destroyed. I’d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.” - Al

  Kim Harrison

  Careers, Space, Soul

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• So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

  Wendell Berry

  Men, May, Ends

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• Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Night, Vastness

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.86, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Michael C. Hall

  Thinking, Special, Acting

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• On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

  Erma Bombeck

  Beach, Vacation, Skins

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• My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.

  Teresa of Avila

  Brother, Children, Father

  Saint Teresa of Avila, Aeterna Press (1951). “The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus”, p.41, Aeterna Press

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• I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

  Nicolas Cage

  Country, Native American, Visitors

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• 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.

  Wangari Maathai

  Diversity, Needs, Earth

  Wangari Maathai's Nobel lecture at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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• As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so may a man be born with certain faculties within him, faculties belonging to the soul, which he can develop by training and by discipline.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Years, Discipline

  Annie Besant (2016). “Esoteric Christianity”, p.78, BookRix

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

  George Eliot

  Levels, Materialism, Felt

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.371, Penguin

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• 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.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Thinking, Nuts

  "'I'm quite odd. I do get very dark moods': Simon Cowell's most revealing - and surprising - interview ever". Interview with Rebecca Hardy, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 23, 2009.

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• Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

  Brennan Manning

  Crush, Jesus, Children

  Brennan Manning (2015). “Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging”, p.6, NavPress

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• 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.

  Gregory Berns

  Giving Up, Numbers, People

  Gregory Berns (2013). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.88, Harvard Business Press

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• A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning "merit" or in being saved by priestly incantation.

  Ammon Hennacy

  Christian, Fear, Believe

  Ammon Hennacy (2010). “The Book of Ammon”, p.475, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations

  Milan Kundera

  Expression, Creating, Individuality

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• It is intended to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves. The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.

  Raphael Lemkin

  Political, Feelings, Liberty

  Raphael Lemkin (2008). “Axis Rule in Occupied Europe”, p.79, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Country, Heart, Thinking

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• Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

  Anton Chekhov

  Country, Drinking, School

  "Peasants". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1897.

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• We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

  Horst Schulze

  Educational, Competition, Climate

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• A house though otherwise beautiful, yet if it hath no garden belonging to it, is more like a prison than a house.

  William H. Coles

  Beautiful, Garden, House

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• By means of an image we are often able to hold on to our lost belongings. But it is the desperateness of losing which picks the flowers of memory, binds the bouquet.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Art, Memories, Flower

  "Mes Apprentissages". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1936.

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• Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Safety, Silence, Needs

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.189, Anchor

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