More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.
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.
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
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 .
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.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
To hear, one must be silent.