(344 quotes found)
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
William Arthur Ward
“It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.”
Mark Twain
“Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”
Erma Bombeck
“You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.”
Pearl Bailey
“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.”
Walt Whitman
“It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.”
D.H. Lawrence
“A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.”
Joan Didion
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
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