Ursula K. Le Guin on glow
Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?”
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Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The light is the left hand of darkness.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin First sentences are doors to worlds.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard to question the universal validity of their personal opinions and affiliations is that they consider this:
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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 GuinUrsula K. Le Guin People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin As men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation – you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
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I am the universe, and every possibility belongs to me.
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Elaine HaysElaine Hays He is my heaven and my hell. Serving passion and poison with the same spoon, and i am a sucker for a taste.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney My mistakes tell me I am quite human, but my brief flashes of brilliance tell me I am divine, too.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry My blood is fifty percent alcohol the other half was you.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.
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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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ZhuangziZhuangzi You are allowed to glow, you are allowed to let the toxicity go.
Saloni VermaSaloni Verma There’s something about twilight that makes her soul shine bright; its as though the glow of the sky draws out the beam of her light.
Lucy Mary BallLucy Mary Ball Dear Moon, May I glow as brightly as you do, cradled amongst darkness.
Juwairiyyah OlgarJuwairiyyah Olgar Fill this cup to that love that never changes, never! Fill this cup to the love that goes on living forever! To the love that has been purified by earthly woes and at last with everlasting bliss, divinely glows!
Nizami GanjaviNizami Ganjavi Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi