#Quote
More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
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.
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 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.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
Hope is a slow business.
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.
