Quotes About Belonging

Connectedness counters the pull of addictive behaviors. It is the key.

I'm reminded of the M?ori elders and their belief that trauma, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse are "all the same thing"—and all related to our connectedness, our sense of belonging.

what works best is anything that increases the quality and number of relationships in the child's life.

Yes, belonging and being loved are core to the human experience. We are a social species; we are meant to be in community—emotionally, socially, and physically interconnected with others. If you look at the fundamental organization and functioning of the human body, including the brain, you will see that so much of it is intended to help us create, maintain, and manage social interactions. We are relational creatures.

Yes. We all want to be part of a group, yet so many children are marginalized, excluded, or bullied. This can be devastating. Being left out can have a deep and enduring impact.

Isolated and disconnected, we are vulnerable. In community, we can protect one another, cooperatively hunt and gather, share with the dependents of our family, our clan. Relational glue keeps our species alive, and love is relational superglue

Creo que no seremos capaces de prevenir este tipo de incidentes hasta que hagamos un esfuerzo mucho mayor para asegurarnos de que todos los estudiantes se sienten incluidos en su comunidad escolar.

En realidad, no puedes quererte a ti mismo si no has sido y eres querido. No es posible construir la capacidad de amar de forma aislada.

All of us want to know that what we do, what we say, and who we are matters.

emotional memories: A song can elicit a feeling, an association with an experience that took place years ago. The smell of roasted turkey or freshly baked bread may elicit a warm sense of belonging, or a melancholy sense of a lost past.

world that's not enough. A strong connection to community is as important today as it was thousands of years ago. The tragedy of the modern world is that community like this is harder and harder to find.

But being on the bottom of any power differential makes life a lot harder. If you don't belong to the "in" group, your marginalization can contribute to feelings of not belonging.

The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

The A is agency—autonomy, freedom, creativity, mastery; the belief that you can impact the world around you. The B is belonging—relationships, community, friends, family; the people that surround and nurture you. The C is cause—a calling, a mission, a direction, a purpose; a transcendent commitment beyond yourself that makes your life worthwhile.

However, as I grew older, there were certain things about the way I thought, reacted, behaved. I came to ruefully and bemusedly understand that once you're a Catholic, you're always a Catholic. So I stopped kidding myself. I don't often participate in my religion but I know somewhere... deep inside... I'm still on the team.

when I turned around, I saw home. These were people who understood me and knew who I was.

I am alienating, alienated and socially homeless . . . I am seven years old.

I can feel the love I'm a part of surrounding me and flowing through me; I'm near home and I'm standing hand in hand with those I love, past and present, in the sun, on the outskirts of something that feels almost like... being free.

People will fight harder and more bitterly to defend their communities than they will fight to defend their own individual selves.

If only we could recall how we felt when we were small, or could imagine how utterly defeated a young child feels when his play companions or older siblings temporarily reject him or can obviously do things better than he can, or when adults—worst of all, his parents—seem to make fun of him or belittle him, then we would know why the child often feels like an outcast:

Home is where you wear your hat.

It was so in the Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.

Mangan ora mangan sing penting CONNECT!

Consider how many times we have heard people reproach their organizations by saying, "There is no one there I want to be like." The reinventing process corrects this deficiency, heightening our desire for role models and people we can relate to. These people and groups provide a "safe base" that enables us to take risks with our new selves and a professional community in which we can develop a new sense of belonging.