Culture Quote by Susan Cain

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

— Anais Nin

“The journey to the center of self is enlightening.”

— James Brown MD

“Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of “self-sufficiency,” and then celebrates it.”

— Wayne Muller

“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

“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to…

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt

“Life from the Center is a life of unhurried peace and power. It is serene and radiant. It takes no time, but it occupies…

— Thomas Kelly

“In other words, nourishing internal culture must precede expanding outside influence. Real change is inside-out.”

— Will Mancini

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Why do we go on and on about individuality being the very essence of who we are, and then accept a degrading level of…

— Bradley Trevor Greive

“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

“So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We were young, and some of us were beautiful, and others of us were brilliant, and a few of us were both. Citizenship demanded…

— Cherise Wolas