Love And Belonging Quotes

#1. Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

Brene Brown

#2. Those who feel lovable, who love, and who experience belonging simply believe they are worthy of love and belonging. I often say that Wholeheartedness is like the North Star: We never really arrive, but we certainly know if we're headed in the right direction.

Brene Brown

#3. It's as simple and complicated as this: If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

Brene Brown

#4. If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging. When

Brene Brown

#5. There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it. And that was, the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging. That's it. They believe they're worthy.

Brene Brown

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

William Glasser

#7. the absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering. It

Brene Brown

#8. A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children.

Brene Brown

#9. Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

Laverne Cox

#10. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy - the experiences that make us the most vulnerable.

Brene Brown

#11. When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Brene Brown

#12. All you want is love and belonging, and your very existence depends on it. But when you get it, you have no existence except that love; there's still no you.

Kiera Van Gelder

#13. Love and belonging are irreducible needs of all men, women, and children. We're hardwired for connection - it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The absence of love, belonging, and connection always leads to suffering.

Brene Brown

#14. You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Brene Brown

#15. Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

Brene Brown

#16. Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

Brene Brown

#17. Realized that only one thing separated the men and women who felt a deep sense of love and belonging from the people who seem to be struggling for it. That one thing is the belief in their worthiness.

Brene Brown

#18. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as were meant to be. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache ... The absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.

Brene Brown

#19. You are my home; it is in your loving gaze that I find the comfort, acceptance, and the sense of belonging.

Steve Maraboli

#20. I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

Christopher Eccleston

#21. They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.

E. M. Forster

#22. Playmates share two gifts. You are loveable, and there is nothing to be afraid of.

O. Fred Donaldson

#23. You are the reason I wake up with a smile on my face, and the reason I go to sleep with a sense of belonging in this world

Erica Orloff

#24. The world seems so meaningless when I am engulfed in the bliss of love and you tracing the evolution of the restless soul of eternal belonging on my face.

Annie Ali

#25. Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.

David Gemmell

#26. Belonging to a place isn't nearly as necessary as belonging to people you love and who love you and need you.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#27. We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.

Julian Short

#28. Communion is mutual trust, mutual belonging; it is the to-and-fro movement of love between two people where each one gives and each one receives. Communion is not a fixed state, it is an ...

Jean Vanier

#29. I could tell he was just as scared to love as I,
But we still both carelessly climbed into eachothers arms and before we knew it, love had found us.

Nikki Rowe

#30. It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

Eugene O'Neill

#31. Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It's probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be.

David Levithan

#32. Since crime often grows out of a sense of futility and despair, Negro parents must be urged to give their children the love, attention, and sense of belonging that a segregated society deprives them of.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#33. Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Brene Brown

#34. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person's soul.

John O'Donohue

#35. even admirable human desires for love, for belonging, and for meaning can be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals to benefit themselves

Noah Berlatsky

#36. Over four decades of pastoral ministry - I got started early - you make mistakes. But the mistakes you most regret are the ones that obscure the gospel and hurt the people you love, by saying in effect, "You do not belong," to those for whom Christ died to provide a place of belonging.

Ken Wilson

#37. They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow.
'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

Kathryn Hughes

#38. It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do ... is stop moving away.

Joanne Harris

#39. How I adore you and want you. You can't know how much ... I love belonging to you
I glory in it, that you alone have bent me to your will, shattered my self-possession, robbed me of my mystery, and made me yours, so that away from you I am nothing but a useless puppet, an empty husk.

Violet Trefusis

#40. Love is being, not belonging. Giving and receiving, not possessing.

Isabel Vincent

#41. 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, A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold

#42. Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

Isabella Rossellini

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

Alice Walker

#44. By building relations we create a source of love and personal pride and belonging that makes living in a chaotic world easier.

Susan Lieberman

#45. 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.

Bell Hooks

#46. Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

Deepak Chopra

#47. I need the sun, sand and ocean to rejuvenate my spirit, the food to enliven my body and all of the familiar places, friends and family to revitalize my soul. I go for replenishment. For a kind of love that I truly know. For a place of belonging, always.

Grace Gealey

#48. I can't even think of the right word, but it's not "help." It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so "tribe" and "belonging" are irreducible needs, like love.

Brene Brown

#49. I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

Kabir Bedi

#50. I believe that vulnerability - the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome - is the only path to more love, belonging, and joy.

Brene Brown

#51. Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. 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

#52. Home is ultimately not about a place to live but about the people with whom you are most fully alive. Home is about love, relationship, community, and belonging, and we are all searching for home.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#53. Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion.
Of forgiveness.
Of coming home.

Lori Wilde

#54. And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical. It was a dialogue between two young people with high ideals and a Big Plan. It was about belonging, secrets, partnership, commitment.

Jasper Fforde

#55. Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

John O'Donohue

#56. If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

Brene Brown

#57. the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome - is the only path to more love, belonging, and joy. He

Brene Brown

#58. When belonging to an elite group eclipses the love of God, when I draw life and meaning from any source other than my belovedness, I am spiritually dead. When God gets relegated to second place behind any bauble or trinket, I have swapped the pearl of great price for painted fragments of glass.

Brennan Manning

#59. Now this... this is why humans did such stupid things for love. To feel this heady sense of belonging and connection, this temporary abatement of perpetual loneliness.

Stacey Kade

#60. I didn't just see a child in my dreams - I felt it in my heart.

Seth Adam Smith

#61. Tru, this is your home. You are my blood kin, my second cousin thrice removed. But blood kin's not the most important kin. Do you know what is?" "No, sir." "Love kin. And that comes from the heart. That's why this is your home.

G. Neri