Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

If I wasn't true to myself, I couldn't live with myself.

Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual. You are only a cog in the wheel, just a part in the vast mechanism, just a small part of the mob - not an individual in your own beauty, in your own right. I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Be - don't try to become.

The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.

Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.

Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves.

I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You have to stay true to yourself and don't be afraid even though people may say what you're doing isn't cool or isn't right. I promise you, you will not regret it if you stay true to who you are and what you love to do because there is no other reason that I am up here today receiving this award.

Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.

Let us never forget that what we are is more important than what we do.

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

The thing that I really want to try and do is just live my life really openly and honestly. I think there's so much power in that, as simple as it is.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

Live simply and virtuously, true to your nature, drawing no line between what is spiritual and what is not.

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky.

Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Being true to ourselves doesn't make us people of integrity. Charles Manson was true to himself, and as a result, he rightly is spending the rest of his life in prison. Ultimately, being true to our Creator gives us the purest form of integrity.

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

I may be a f..kwit but I'm not a liar. I was a believer.

Anyone or anything that asks you to be untrue to yourself has already acted against you.