More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
To hear, one must be silent.
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.
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 .
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
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 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.
