Top Belonging Quotes

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.

On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight worldThat we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,And to grow...

Belonging Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Belong

(n.) That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects.

(n.) That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance.

(n.) Family; relations; household.

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run....

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Nev...

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that they turned thei...

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

8 second hug: Yes, eight seconds is a long time, and no, I am not recommending giving everyone an eight second hug. The shell we put up or mask we hide behind is made up of what we think logically thi...

The beauty of being human is the capacity and desire for intimacy. Yet we know that even those who are most intimate remain strange to us. Like children, we often make strange with each other.

Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

I have no definable history before I was abandoned and taken in by the orphanage in Hong Kong. I truly am a blank sheet. I have been disconnected from my ancestors. I don't know who they are, where th...

In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong.

She didn't belong anywhere and she never really belonged to anyone. And everyone else belonged somewhere and to someone. People thought she was too wonderful. But she only wanted to belong to someone....

We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.

What if we all stopped fighting to belong and realized that we already do? What if we acknowledged, in each interaction with ourselves and with others, the eternal, beautiful interconnected energy tha...

Our culture values independence and isolation far too much, it seems to me--we have a hard time making ourselves part of things, of making ourselves responsible to others, and trusting others to be th...

Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you. It is impossible to believe anyone loves y...

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.