Contact
Privacy
Category: belonging
Quotes of Category: belonging
TOP TAGS :gardensenergylovejoydestruction-of-naturedreamingmustachefairwasted-time

  1. John le Carré _ The Honourable Schoolboy

    Home's where you go when you run out of homes."
    book-quotehomebelongingroots

  2. Polly Horvath _ My One Hundred Adventures

    We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.
    book-quotebelonging

  3. Bell Hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.
    book-quotelovefeargift

  4. James Baldwin _ Giovanni’s Room

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

  5. John Fowles _ The Magus

    A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.
    book-quotepastlanguageengland

  6. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    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 you for yourself.I never believed that my parents loved me. I tried to love them but it didn't work. It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving. I have written about love obsessively, forensically, and I know/knew it as the highest value.I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea. I thought that love was loss. Why is the measure of love loss?
    book-quotelovefamilyloss

  7. Lois Lowry _ The Giver

    I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
    book-quotelifewisdomsorry

  8. Beryl Markham _ West with the Night

    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. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance."
    book-quotepastmoving-onmemory

  9. Brené Brown _ Braving the Wilderness: The

    Quoting Viola Davis {who is sharing rules she lives by}: '4. I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her-the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she's not alone in that wilderness.
    book-quotelovemotherhoodbelonging

  10. Toni Morrison _ Song of Solomon

    They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp.
    book-quotelaughterbelonging

  11. Wallace Stegner _ Angle of Repose

    Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.
    book-quotehomebelongingroots

  12. John O'Donohue _ Eternal Echoes: Celtic

    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.
    book-quoteloverelationshipfriendship
Categories