#belong

It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation. ↗

— Kathleen Winsor

#bedroom #belonged #boudoir #except #invitation

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#came #children #daughters #itself #life

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#be prepared #belongs #changes #life #lives

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#belonged #brought #even #feel #film

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#boy #country #country boy #crowded #destroy

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. ↗

— Jinato Hu

#belongs #chinese #chinese culture #culture #only

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#beauty #believe #belongs #future #their

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#because #belong #each #forgotten #other

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#company #desires #literature #longings #beauty

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature