If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. . -Ursula K. LeGuin.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

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

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