More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
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.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
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.
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.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
