96 Belonging Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Brene Brown

Love Needs Hurt People Met Fall Sense Sick Others Those All People Physically Spiritually Wired Were Get Aches Break Loved Apart To Love Meant Deep Function Belong Biologically Belonging Numb Need

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. Brene Brown

Love Good Trust Creativity Joy Black Black And White Important Few White Spent Those Definite Bad Uncertainty Outrun Name Lean Wrought Vulnerability Limited Discomfort Making Years Lot Trying Experiences Inability Good And Bad Certain Fullness Things Belonging

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. Brene Brown

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Brene Brown

Love You Struggle Worthy Imperfect Wired Belonging

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. Aldo Leopold

Love Respect Community See Abuse Because Begin May Commodity Regard Which Land Us Use Belong Belonging

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging? Alexander the Great

We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. William Glasser

Love Needs Freedom Survival Power Driven Genetic Five Fun Belonging

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. Alexander Theroux

Problem Hypocrisy Snobbery About Essence Belonging

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question. Willard Scott

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging. Jhumpa Lahiri

Home Language Piece Identity Just Different Place Different Elements Elements Belonging

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have. Eartha Kitt

Myself Me Woman Black Made Group Think Everybody Carry General General Public Never Particular Person Any After Public Belonging Belongs

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. Phyllis George

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe

Freedom Rights Ride Minority Few Stars Our Remaining Demanded Involved Protesting Am Loss Right Twinkle Belonging

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 Own Though Visitor See My Own Feel Like Always Still America American Native Native Americans Really Even Belonging

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. Saint Teresa of Avila

Great Man Charity Compassion Father Own Sick Once Brothers Could Tenderness Never He Towards House Also Him His Pitied Being Children Them Poor Much Persuaded Keep Servants Belonging Slave Treated Slaves

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population. Alice Walker

Love Women Thought Segment Never Particular Any Movement Population Belonging

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

People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.' Arlie Russell Hochschild

People Church Recycling Sense Group Market Our Neighborhood Something Kitchen Through Self Part Volunteer Feel Come Calls Self-Interest Soup Than Get Different Center Us Who Larger Belonging

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