Deep bow to Ursula K. Le Guin, a courageous woman
and beautiful soul. ― Molly
❤
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
― Ursula K. Le Guin
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