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Life Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over…
- Love is the true condition of human life.
- We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,…
- True myths may serve for thousands of years as an inexhaustible source of intellectual speculation, religious joy, ethical inquiry, and artistic renewal. The real mystery…
- If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God,…
- What is life without incompatible realities?
- I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I watched the light…
- Meeting writers is always so disappointing. I got over wanting to meet live writers quite a long time ago. There is this terrific book that…
- Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
- Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
- If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And…
- 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…
- I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
- And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength…
- We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them;…
- To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.
- I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the…
- Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came…
- Who knows a man's name, holds that man's life in his keeping. Thus to Ged, who had lost faith in himself, Vetch had given him…
- I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can…
- I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines…
- And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name,…
- When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like…
- They can send death at once, but life is slower...
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle