#belonging

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

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

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

— Samuel Alexander

#expectation #future #me #object #recognised

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

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

— William Glasser

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

— Geoffrey Beene

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

— Robert Collier

#belonging #possession #see #them #things

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

— Christopher Eccleston

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

— Susan Lieberman

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The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#belonging #entirely #feeling #hostage #me