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Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.”
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Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin When the genuine myth rises into consciousness, that is always its message. You must change your life.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Hope is a slow business.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I’m going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
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I wear green on Sunday because it’s my mom’s favorite color, but green goes pretty well on Sunday at the Masters, too.
Tony FinauTony Finau Historically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. Heinlein If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.
Jurgen KloppJurgen Klopp Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
George BurnsGeorge Burns A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.
Conor McGregorConor McGregor The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
Aidan ChambersAidan Chambers I’ve had people question my “integrity” based off of something I didn’t post on social media, the list goes on. It’s mind boggling.
Aeriel MirandaAeriel Miranda