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.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
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.
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.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
