#belong

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#belongs #desire #everything #his #human

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. ↗

— Jack London

#add #beauty #belongs #book #estate

Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country. ↗

— Joseph P. Kennedy

#belong #belongs #country #family #jack

He was a very private person, but then, you know, he belonged to the whole United States. The United States thought they owned Johnny Carson. ↗

— Doc Severinsen

#carson #johnny #johnny carson #know #owned

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#belonged #invincible #invisible #known #peace

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#almost #belonged #deeply #equally #future

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#capacity #comes #create #everything #receive

What is true belongs to me! ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#me #true

I think back to my dream of the boy, because in it I find solace. I like that word. I'm going to make it my word of the year. There is just something about that boy that makes me feel like I belong. Belong. Long to be. Weird word, but semantics aside, it is up there with solace. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#solace #dreams

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #country #humanity #illuminates #knowledge