"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

Belonging, Existence, Love, Philosophy, Life

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"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

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"He sat down on a grassy bank and looked at the city that surrounded him, and thought, one day he would have to go home. And one day he would have to make a home to go back to. He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough. He pulled out his book."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Belonging, Home, Memory, Hope

"Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it."

John Updike, American Novelist

Belonging, Russia, Longing, Identity, Paradox

"And I guess when you take away the resentment and disappointment, it's that simple. It is what we do in families: we help, because we were helped."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Belonging, Family, Support, Help, Tradition

"I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting."

Katie McGarry, American Author

Belonging, Community, Healing, Connection

"I give her the only honest and true answer I have.'You're where I want to be."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

Belonging, Love, Honesty, Presence

"People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Belonging, Home, Happiness, Surprise

"I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up."

Gayle Forman, American Journalist

Belonging, Existence, Life, Truth

"Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

Belonging, Heart, Journey, Home, Soul

"I told the students that they were at the age when they might begin to choose places that would sustain them the rest of their lives, that places were more reliable than human beings, and often much longer-lasting, and I asked them where they felt at home."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

Belonging, Home, Identity, Choice

"We can only sense ourselves and our world valued and cherished by God when we feel valued and cherished by others."

Brennan Manning, American Author

Belonging, Love, Validation, Emotion

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"Honest people don't hide their deeds."

People

"I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind."

Dream

"I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal."

Faith

"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."

Work

"I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide."

Nature

"Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?"

Friendship

"If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day."

Love

"Then dawns the Invisible; the Unseen its truth reveals;My outward sense is gone, my inward essence feels:Its wings are almost free - its home, its harbour found,Measuring the gulph, it stoops and dares the final bound,'Oh I dreadful is the check - intense the agony - When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see;When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again;The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain."

Awakening

"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

Home

"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."

Society