#belong

The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police. ↗

— Todor Zhivkov

#belongs #people #police

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. 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. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. ↗

— Brené Brown

#courage #inspirational #light #love #vulnerability

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. ↗

— Tacitus

#hate #human #human nature #injured #nature

The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#based #belongs #conceptual #consciousness #deeper

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. ↗

— Alfred Brendel

#composed #composer #i #like #makes

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#back #belong #brooklyn #climate #club

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world! ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#belongs #coming #discriminate #feel #i

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere. ↗

— Jack Dee

#belonged #comics #common #depression #during

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#big #big leagues #calm #calm down #down

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#belong #cultivate #cultivating #doing #doing good