Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
URSULA K. LE GUINThe important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.
More Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes
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Hope is a slow business.
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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
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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.
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Well, we think that time “passes,” flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see.
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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 .
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The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, – this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.
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My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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There are no right answers to wrong questions.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
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To hear, one must be silent.
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A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.
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Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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We’re each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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