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“I learned the joke at the core of American self-improvement: knowledge was so much junk to be processed one way or another at great universities. The real treasure the great universities offered wa...”
“That evening, in her apartment, still in Warsaw, Ana takes down a book from her shelf a rather thick, ordinary paperback. It looks old, because it's worn out and somehow shabby. But it's not ordin...”
“I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?”
“The sea is intriguing and exciting. It always reinforces in me a sense of belonging. The waves bring with them a strange kind of peace and calm. The sea has been a silent spectator to many major in...”
“She was neither widow nor mother: she only yearned for the dignity of a woman who had once belonged, somewhere, to somebody. She had belonged to no one, for she had never wanted chick nor child. He...”
“I never said it was easy to find your place in this world, but Im coming to the conclusion that if you seek to please others, you will forever be changing because you will never be yourself, only f...”
“Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen...”
“Especially at a time when one's life was new, roots helped.”
“In every city you go, you will come across men of different kinds and you are the one to choose where your to belong.”
“And we kissed again. It was a warm, indescribably lovely feeling. But it was more than just physical. It was a dialogue between two young people with high ideals and a Big Plan. It was about belong...”
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
“No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.”
“To be able to open the heart again after betrayal, injury, or loss is a precious act. It requires both courage and compassion. It requires a new movement to emerge from the depths of grief. Forgive...”
“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”
“Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.”
“Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.”
“Our culture values independence and isolation far too much, it seems to me--we have a hard time making ourselves part of things, of making ourselves responsible to others, and trusting others to be...”
“Life is energy and, as such, it belongs to all, reaches all, and blesses all.”
“Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.”
“We should have realized it sooner, at least my father should have, that there was no coming back. Not in September when the riots died down, not in October when the subcontinent still lay in shock,...”
