More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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.
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.
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.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
