It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
To be whole is to be part;_x000D_ true voyage is return.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Being complete involves embracing connections with others, and true journeys often lead us back to ourselves.
Ursula K. Le Guin's quote reflects on the interconnectedness of existence, suggesting that to feel complete (or 'whole'), one must recognize the importance of being part of a larger community. Moreover, the idea that 'true voyage is return' emphasizes the notion that meaningful experiences often lead us back to deeper self-understanding and appreciation of where we come from.
Themes
WholenessVoyageReturnCommunitySelf-Discovery
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of community, one might say this quote to illustrate the interconnectedness of human experience.
More from Ursula K. Le Guin
All quotes βIn reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
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.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. βDo they expect students not to be anarchists?β he said. βWhat else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
Similar quotes
We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.
Cesar ChavezRead
The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.
John MarshallRead
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
Thomas GrayRead
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
Margaret AtwoodRead
[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advantages squandered.
Anthony BourdainRead
Give a thing a name and it will somehow come to be.
George R. R. MartinRead