This collection holds 184 belonging quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Gautama Buddha, David Whyte and Antoine De Saint-Exupery.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Your actions are your only true belongings.

There is no house like the house of belonging.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.

Now I have no caste, no creed, I am no more what I am!

Belonging has always been a fundamental driver of humankind.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

Do you think there's a difference? Between belonging with and belonging to?

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.

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

Those who bless and serve life find a place of belonging and strength, a refuge.

I have a very strong sense of who I am as a Jew and a strong sense of belonging.

In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.'

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.

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

It is important to find a place where you feel trust, you feel belonging and stability.

He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

I am lucky to have found an artistic companion in Anurag; there is a sense of belonging.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

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

She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.

Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed.

My faith did not require beauty or belonging - the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

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

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.

People have to see that there is a high degree of complexity about belonging to a gang. It's a symptom, not a problem.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.

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

The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.

A sense of belonging is not physical. We cant find it by changing where we live or what we do. We have to carry it within us

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

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.

Not belonging to any political party actually helps me because I value my independent voice above everything else, I treasure it.

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

It is very overwhelming to find that you are loved by people belonging to different provinces and cultures. They give me the energy.

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