Adventure Quote by Anais Nin

“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our…

— Susan Cain

Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not…

— John Zerzan

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took…

— Paul Keating

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves…

— Francis Parkman

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

— Judith Butler

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

— Basil Hume

“As individuals, we experience ourselves as the center of whatever social world we inhabit. We think that we are free and refuse to see…

— Andrea Dworkin

“In our narrow, confined existence, we tend to forget the essence of life ... All of us, whatever our occupation or class, are equally…

— Jean Jaures

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards.…

— Helen Keller

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

— Frances Mayes

As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people,…

— Michael Meade

“The governing pattern a culture obeys is a master story – one narrative in society that takes over the others, shrinking diversity and forming…

— FS Michaels