{"quotes":[{"text":"On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight worldThat we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.'Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.","author":"Bai Juyi","tags":["ancient","belonging","china","death","despair","everlasting-love","heaven","life","loss","love","separation","sorrow"],"id":434,"author_id":"Bai+Juyi"},{"text":"He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["belonging","homesickness","identity"],"id":4055,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["abandonment","belonging","fear","generousity","gift","heart","love","true-love"],"id":4630,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"The Tejo runs down from SpainAnd the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal.Everybody knows that.But not many people know the river of my villageAnd where it comes fromAnd where it’s going.And so, because it belongs to less people,The river of my village is freer and greater.","author":"Alberto Caeiro","tags":["belonging","home","homeland","love","paganism","pantheism","simplicity","tranquility"],"id":5257,"author_id":"Alberto+Caeiro"},{"text":"Intimacy transcends the physical. It is a feeling of closeness that isn’t about proximity, but of belonging. It is a beautiful emotional space in which two become one.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["belonging","intimacy","love","relationships","true-love"],"id":10713,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?","author":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","tags":["belonging","love","safety"],"id":13591,"author_id":"Chimamanda+Ngozi+Adichie"},{"text":"My friends stood on the ground two feet below me, and miles away from understanding why I would want to sleep on a trailer platform... I couldn't possibly begin to explain what was only beginning to bud inside me: I wanted a home. I wanted to be at home, in the world and in my body (a feeling I had been missing since I'd woken up in the hospital) and somehow, in some as yet undefined way, I knew that windows in the great room and a skylight over my bed were going to help with that.","author":"Dee Williams","tags":["belonging","home","the-big-tiny"],"id":17840,"author_id":"Dee+Williams"},{"text":"Maybe I live in the gates that lead to outbound international flights. Maybe that is home.And do I feel more comfortable at the departures or at the arrivals?","author":"Michal Coret","tags":["airport","belonging","home","immigration","poetry","prose"],"id":19561,"author_id":"Michal+Coret"},{"text":"The river of my village doesn’t make you think about anything.When you’re at its bank you’re only at its bank.","author":"Alberto Caeiro","tags":["belonging","home","homeland","natural","nature","paganism","pantheism","simplicity"],"id":32509,"author_id":"Alberto+Caeiro"},{"text":"...Not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.","author":"Donna Tartt","tags":["belonging","contentment","home","homesickness","loneliness","sadness"],"id":38299,"author_id":"Donna+Tartt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":169,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}