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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
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.
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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.
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
Hope is a slow business.
