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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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.
To hear, one must be silent.
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.
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
