Wanting to belong Quotes

“He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”

“Perhaps your hunger to belong is always active and intense because you belonged so totally before you came here. This hunger to belong is the echo and reverberation of your invisible heritage. You are from somewhere else, where you were known, embraced and sheltered. This is also the secret root from which all longing grows. Something in you knows, perhaps remembers, that eternal belonging liberates longing into its surest and most potent creativity. This is why your longing is often wiser than your conventional sense of appropriateness, safety and truth... Your longing desires to take you towards the absolute realization of all the possibilities that sleep in the clay of your heart; it knows your eternal potential, and it will not rest until it is awakened.”

“To be is to belong.”

“It was right that she was now staying at the ranch. She belonged there.”

“The universe belongs to you, and you belong to your conscience.”

“The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.”

“Things do not belong to us but we belong to things.”

“All I've ever wanted was a place to belong, and someone to belong to.”

“To belong somewhere. That was something much more important than belonging to someone. Now, he used to think to himself that maybe he took too serious that 'mission' of belonging somewhere.”

“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.”