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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Stars
Forever
Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Art
Kings
DivineRight
Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Wall
Nice
Thinking
Ursula K. Le Guin
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Children
Creativity
Imagination
Ursula K. Le Guin
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Dragons
People
Deny
Ursula K. Le Guin
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Mindfulness
Revolution
Spirit
Ursula K. Le Guin
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Life
Business
Future
Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice
Break
Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Inspirational
Real
Book
Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Odds
Two
Limits
Ursula K. Le Guin
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Wall
Acceptance
Way
Ursula K. Le Guin
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
People
Victim
PowerOverOthers
Ursula K. Le Guin
To hear, one must be silent.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Silent
Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Pain
Reality
Roots
Ursula K. Le Guin
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Enlightenment
Pay
Elegance
Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Art
Writing
Mean
Ursula K. Le Guin
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
BeingYourself
Matter
AskingYourselfQuestions
Ursula K. Le Guin
Hope is a slow business.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Hope
Ursula K. Le Guin
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.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Healing
MeaningOfLife
Asking
Ursula K. Le Guin
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
Light
Darkness
Sunlight
Ursula K. Le Guin
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