"As soon as we take one thing by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

"Compromise is not a sign of the collapse of one’s moral conscience. It is a sign of its strength, for there is nothing more necessary to a moral conscience than the recognition that other people have one, too. A compromise is a knot tied tight between competing decencies.”

"Becoming who we really are is a matter of learning how to become more and more deeply connected. No one can possibly go to heaven alone—or it would not be heaven."

“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it.”

More: https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/21/telling-is-listening-ursula-k-le-guin-communication/

"It’s not about being privately correct; it’s about being fully connected."