Wisdom Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.”

“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 give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”

“Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. 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. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.”

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

“He said after a little while, 'I see why you say that only men do evil, I think. Even sharks are innocent, they kill because they must.'”

“Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.”

“The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.”

“Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives”

“When you are fed up looking for happiness or motivation outside; look inside.”

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.”

“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”