Desire To Belong Quotes

#1. The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

Eric Hoffer

#2. All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him

Vincent De Paul

#3. Caring what others think about us is normal. The desire to belong is basic to human nature. But in order to feel like you truly belong, you must accept yourself for who you are. This is critical to Fearless Living.

Rhonda Britten

#4. The desire to belong is in every mind.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. We have this inane desire to belong to something that is greater than we are on our own. That desire is so strong that we can fool ourselves into believing things that aren't true.

Micalea Smeltzer

#7. By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.

Amity Shlaes

#8. Eventually, everything goes away.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. I know so much about other people's expectations and so little about my own.

Martin Pistorius

#10. We come to this world with an abundance of hope, a deep desire to love, and a longing to belong.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.

William Whewell

#12. A magnetic personality doesn't necessarily indicate a good heart.

Laura Linney

#13. When it's for each other that people give things up they
don't miss them

Henry James

#14. I feel like dough, being kneaded and reshaped again and again.

Suzanne Collins

#15. Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.

Said Musa

#16. Why are you hitting yourself, Jessie Kay? Huh? Huh? Why?

Gena Showalter

#17. National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

Frantz Fanon

#18. Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.

Paolo Giordano

#19. My fear is a fear of being obsolete. This is a world that changes very fast, and one of the main human desires is to belong to, to be part of something. It's probably one of our greatest needs next to oxygen.

Paul Polman

#20. I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, The world will never understand.

Nadege Richards

#21. When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

Gaby Hoffmann

#22. You are mine. I can do what I want with you. I can dress you. Fuck you. Send you away. Loan you to others. You belong to me. And you've finally realized it isn't romantic, it isn't sexy, or fun. It's something no one should want or desire. You're a captive.

Pepper Winters

#23. I brush her hair away from her face, gently, so I don't wake her. She doesn't need my protection. She's strong enough on her own.

Veronica Roth

#24. The hunger to belong is not merely a desire to be attached to something. It is rather sensing that great transformation and discovery become possible when belonging is sheltered and true.

John O'Donohue

#25. I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

Jacques Delors

#26. Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

John Calvin

#27. It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in

Alexis Bass

#28. I always had this put-together family, and I always identified as the outsider. And that's a position where I feel most comfortable, and yet I feel an incredible longing to belong. That is really a strong feeling from my childhood - a desire to be part of a group.

Lily King

#29. Desire
I desire you
more than food
and drink
My body
my senses
my mind
hunger for your taste
I can sense your presence
in my heart
although you belong
to all the world
I wait
with silent passion
for one gesture
one glance
from you

Rumi

#30. There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#31. People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only thing we should respect in a person's faith is his desire for a better life in this world; we need never have respected his certainty that one awaits him in the next.

Sam Harris

#32. The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.

Simon Sinek

#33. The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

Sarah Bernhardt

#34. The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence
these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Albert Einstein

#35. As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.

Chaz Bono

#36. Humanities' greatest desire is to belong and connect.

Jason Russell

#37. The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.

Linda Hogan

#38. She would forever belong to them, a willing slave to their love and desire.

S.R. Roddy

#39. In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us, be it agreeable or disagreeable. By the grace of God, we belong to Him; what else should we desire except to please Him?

Vincent De Paul

#40. When you work you learn something about what you are doing and you develop habits and procedures out of what you're doing.

Jasper Johns

#41. That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.

Fernando Pessoa