Belonging Quotes

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends.

— William Shakespeare

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

— John Donne

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

— Dorothy Day

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy.

— Henri J. M. Nouwen

What if joy is not made to be a crumb?

— Ross Gay

We are the leaders we’ve been looking for.

— Grace Lee Boggs

Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice.

— Louise Glück

Third places exist on neutral ground and serve to level their guests to a condition of social equality.

— Ray Oldenburg

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.

— Fred Rogers

Remember you are all people and all people are you.

— Joy Harjo

All real living is meeting.

— Martin Buber

There are biological families and there are logical families.

— Armistead Maupin

True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.

— Brené Brown

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

— Fred Rogers

The earth is what we all have in common.

— Wendell Berry

Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.

— bell hooks

We are our grandmothers' prayers. We are our grandfathers' dreamings.

— Ntozake Shange

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted.

— E. M. Forster

Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.

— Maya Angelou

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

— Helen Keller

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

— Walt Whitman

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

— John Donne