#belong

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#decision #decisions

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

#because #begin #belong #belonging #commodity

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#before #belonged #brother #considerably #different

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#belongs #everything #free #free will #glory

Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright. ↗

— Jose Marti

#birthright #completely #country #culture #disposal

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#belongs #body #evil #far #feeling

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world. ↗

— Ruud van Nistelrooy

#find #kind #luxury #normal #normal thing

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#before #belong #blackness #campus #classmates

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#clique #hip #important #important thing #just

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#cannot #consistently #defend #envisaged #euro