BELONGING
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"We
can never get a re-creation of community and
heal our society without giving our citizens
a sense of belonging."
-- Patch
Adams
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I
long, as does every human being, to be at home
wherever I find myself.
-- Maya Angelou
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"We may have different religions, different languages,
different colored skin, but we all belong to one
human race."
-- Kofi
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"The natural world is the larger sacred
community to which we belong. To be alienated
from this community is to become destitute in
all that makes us human. To damage this community
is to diminish our own existence."
~ Thomas
Berry
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There is nothing more important than a good, safe,
secure home.
-- Rosalynn
Carter
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Giving connects two people, the giver and the
receiver, and this connection gives birth to a
new sense of belonging.
-- Deepak
Chopra
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“If you believe in a security strategy
-- a strategy of more friends and fewer enemies,
a strategy of greater cooperation and a strategy
of keeping America better at home as we grow more
diverse -- we have to build the minds and hearts
to build this kind of world.”
~ Bill
Clinton
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“There
are certain things that are fundamental to human
fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured
in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave
a legacy'. The need to live is our physical need
for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical
well-being, health. The need to love is our social
need to relate to other people, to belong, to love
and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental
need to develop and to grow. And the need to leave
a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of
meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution”
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"We
have a responsibility to look after our planet.
It is our only home."
--
The
Dalai Lama
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The
wise man belongs to all countries, for the home
of a great soul is the whole world
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When
I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they
showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear.
They asked me which one is different and does not
belong; they taught me different was wrong.
-- Ani
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and
fire for the mind as well as the body.
-- Benjamin
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The happiest moments of my life have been the
few which I have passed at home in the bosom of
my family. ~Thomas
Jefferson
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Most
homeless kids are on the streets because they
have been forced by circumstances that cause them
to think that they are safer there than in any
home they once knew.
-- Jewel
Kilcher
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We abuse land because we regard it
as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land
as a community to which we belong, we may begin
to use it with love and respect.
~ Aldo
Leopold
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So
join with me in this campaign. Lend me your strength
and your support-and together, we will call America
home to the ideals that nourished us in the beginning.
From secrecy, and deception in high places, come
home, America...
From military spending so wasteful that it weakens
our nation, come home, America.
From the entrenchment of special privilege and
tax favoritism-
From the waste of idle hands to the joy of useful
labor-
From the prejudice of race and sex-
From the loneliness of the aging poor and the
despair of the neglected sick, come home, America.
Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream.
Come home to the conviction that we can move our
country forward.
Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer
world.
And let us be joyful in the homecoming,
for:' this land is your land, this land is my
land.
From California to the New York Islands.
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters.
This land was made for you and me.'
May God grant us the wisdom to cherish this good
land and to meet the great challenge that beckons
us home. This is the time.
-- George
McGovern
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Thousands
of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people
are beginning to find out that going to the mountain
is going home; that wildness is necessity; that
mountain parks and reservations are useful not
only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers,
but as fountains of life.
~ John
Muir
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'My
home is a place of warmth and love. No one should
be denied a home.'
-- Gail Porter
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Whatever
system of governance is eventually adopted, it is
important that it carries the people with it. We
need to convey the message that safeguarding our
common property, humankind, will require developing
in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind.
It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging
to the human race. We have to become world citizens.
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"Good parents give their children Roots and Wings.
Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away
and exercise what's been taught them."
-- Jonas
Salk
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"I am of the opinion that my life
belongs to the community, and as long as I live
it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."
-- George
Bernard Shaw
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In
our hectic, fast-paced, consumer-driven society,
it's common to feel overwhelmed, isolated and
alone. Many are re-discovering the healing and
empowering role that community can bring to our
lives. The sense of belonging we feel when we
make the time to take an active role in our communities
can give us a deeper sense of meaning and purpose.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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We
don't need bombs and guns to destroy, to bring
peace - just get together, love one another, bring
that peace, that joy, that strength of presence
of each other in the home. And we will be able
to overcome all the evil that is in the world.
-- Mother Teresa
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Universality
of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self
because it means that every country belongs, feels
it has a stake, and participates, rather than
going away and finding other methods of conducting
international relations.
-- Shashi
Tharoor
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"Do
more than belong: participate. Do more than care:
help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than
be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget.
Do more than dream: work.”
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