Ursula K. Le Guin on candle
Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
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It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
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Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle.
Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne FrankAnne Frank We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.
John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
Gautama BuddhaGautama Buddha We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
Thomas EdisonThomas Edison What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
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