More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
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 .
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay 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.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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.
