More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
