467 Quotes About Belonging

It is a delicate balance between being present and yet keeping your eyes on the prize. The objective is not to dwell in the future, but to just make sure you visit it with the regularity required to keep you engaged with what you’re doing and where you’re going.

Your ability to take on monumental tasks is the result of having brought the proper tools to do so.

Home is that place where One Self feels that, that is His/Her Place.

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.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

I didn't belongBecause maybe I never wantedTo belong. When everybody else danced and sang, I sat silently in my room with books,Books, and books. I used books for self-defenseAnd as stealth bombers: I am better than youBecause I have read more books than you; I amBeloved by these books; I am beloved by words.

Stop spinning on your busy wheel of pain long enough to hear this: You are not outside the fold of your original preciousness. Even the dawn-bird is heralding this truth each morning, singing to you a map-song with coordinates leading to your renewal. - from "Invisible Belonging," The School of Soft-Attention

Stop spinning on your busy wheel of pain long enough to hear this: You are not outside the fold of your original preciousness. Even the dawn-bird is heralding this truth each morning, singing to you a map-song with coordinates leading to your renewal.

If you’re not careful, you’ll confuse comfort for belonging. There are some places and situations you get used to, but it doesn’t mean you belong there.