#belong

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death. ↗

— Dean Inge

#clearly #consecrated #death #eternal #eternal world

Through every moment on stage for the first time, I felt like I was finally right where I belonged. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#every #felt #finally #first #first time

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you. ↗

— Tom Mann

#belongs #bones #breath #breathe #dry

As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#friendship #laughter #pretending #dating

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

— Steve Maraboli

#life #love #loving #relationships #experience

Pack is for comfort when you hurt, I thought, putting my head back down. And for the first time in a long time, maybe the first time ever, I appreciated being a part of one. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#comfort #family #mercy-thompson #pack #silver-borne

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all. ↗

— Elizabeth Blake

#belonging #differences #identity #family

I've always tried to make a home for myself, but I have not felt at home in myself. I've worked hard at being the hero of my own life. But every time I checked the register of displaced persons, I was still on it. I didn't know how to belong. Longing? Yes. Belonging? No. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#displaced #hero #longing #life

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#belonging #earth #humanity #life #man

But I also knew that if he turned away from me at this moment, somehow I would survive that, and I would find a way to flourish like the yard that still bloomed and grew around my family home. I'm Sookie Stackhouse. I belong here. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#flourishing #survival #surviving #family