Ursula K. Le Guin on accept
Ursula K. Le Guin161 quotes“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
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Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Listen.’ For being saved is not the point. Music saves nothing. Merciful, uncaring, it denies and breaks down all the shelters, the houses men build for themselves, that they may see the sky.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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 GuinUrsula K. Le Guin What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat… where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin 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.
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Eartha KittEartha Kitt People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
Buckminster FullerBuckminster Fuller If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame.
Ralph MarstonRalph Marston Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
Rainer Maria RilkeRainer Maria Rilke They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
Noam ChomskyNoam Chomsky The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you.
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