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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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 see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
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.
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.
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.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.