More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
