Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.

It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

If R. Akiva was perhaps overly generous in judging his generation, it can perhaps be ascribed to the belief, based on his own experience, that everyone is capable of a dramatic life change.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

Well-written novels make you more empathetic towards other people. You can identify with someone who isn't you. You can change your identity. A 14-year-old boy can become Anna Karenina. It is a miracle.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

Soon he'll come in again and kiss me, but differently. He'll be different and so I'll be different. It'll be different. I thought, 'It'll be different, different. It must be different.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious worth or validity is not what kind of far-out experience it can produce, but is the life improved by its use? That's the test. Now, on that score, if you remove the "religious cocoon," the experiences don't seem to have much in the way of discernible, traceable effects.

I'd rather see the world from a different angle.