Ursula K. Le Guin

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#death

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 Guin

#love

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#reading #feeling

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#crazy #live #person #sane #sane person

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#good #in the end #journey #matters #toward

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#bravery #courage #curiousity #freedom #heroism

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#future #philosophy #life

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#certainty #humility #knowledge #policy #humility

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#knowledge #belief

But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dragons