“You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.”
Oriana Fallaci book Letter to a Child Never Born
Source: Letter to a Child Never Born
“Belong to yourself.”
Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Belong to yourself." by Sabrina Ward Harrison?
Sabrina Ward Harrison12
Canadian writer 1975Related quotes
“And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Source: The Gay Science
Paul Gabriël (1828–1903) painter (1828-1903)
translation from the Dutch original: Fons Heijnsbroek <br class="br">version in original Dutch / citaat van Paul Gabriël, in Nederlands: Wees wat, weest U zelve, zoo niet gooi uw palet in ’t vuur. Vormt een school zoo ge wilt, maar het moet uit U komen, maar gij zelve mag tot geen school behooren. <br class="br">In a letter of Gabriël, Brussel (14 Oct. 1879), to his student then Willem Bastiaan Tholen; in Gabriël, P.J.C, ed. Jeltes, H.F.W.; Gebroeders Binger, Amsterdam 1926; as cited in an excerpt of RKD Archive, The Hague https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/136 <br class="br">1860's + 1870's
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Paul Gabriël (1828–1903) painter (1828-1903)
version in original Dutch / citaat van Paul Gabriël, in Nederlands: Wees wat, weest U zelve, zoo niet gooi uw palet in ’t vuur. Vormt een school zoo ge wilt, maar het moet uit U komen, maar gij zelve mag tot geen school behooren.<br>In a letter of Gabriël, Brussel (14 Oct. 1879), to his student then Willem Bastiaan Tholen; in Gabriël, P.J.C, ed. Jeltes, H.F.W.; Gebroeders Binger, Amsterdam 1926; as cited in an excerpt of RKD Archive, The Hague https://rkd.nl/explore/excerpts/136 <br class="br">1860's + 1870's
Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015) social activist and feminist
"'Revolution as a New Beginning': An Interview with Grace Lee Boggs" http://web.archive.org/web/20070415072944/http://oat.tao.ca/~tom/journal/uta1_sequential.pdf. Upping the Anti No. 1. p. 28. March 31, 2005. Interview conducted at Boggs's home in Detroit, Michigan, July 22, 2003. (Web archives http://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/01-revolution-as-a-new-beginning/ http://web.archive.org/web/20081030014009/http://uppingtheanti.org/node/1280)
John McCain book Faith of My Fathers
As quoted in "Faith of My Fathers" http://www.issues2002.org/Senate/John_McCain_Principles_&_Values.htm (9 November 1999). <br class="br">1990s
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) writer and salonist
In "My Country 'tis of Thee", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
Context: I am beginning to have a healthy dread of possessions, be it of a country, a house, a being or even an idea. If we are bothered by possessions we cannot really live either from without or from within; we are the possession of our possessions. All wars and most loves come from the possessive instinct. Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men: that you may belong to everything and everything be yours inclusive of yourself.
Could we, and we can, have the vital necessities for all, we should do away with this cry of class and begin to differentiate between individuals.
Individual superiority can alone feed the soul and give back through some materialisation of itself this individualised wealth of being.