More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
