More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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 .
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.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
