More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
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.
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Hope is a slow business.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
