Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. Orson Scott Card More Quotes by Orson Scott Card More Quotes From Orson Scott Card Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. Orson Scott Card worthy pain happiness I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. Orson Scott Card different believe people Ethan Wyeth: I hope you're thirsty." Gideon Wyeth:"Why?" Ethan: "Cause your dumb and ugly, but I can do something about thirsty. Orson Scott Card gideon ugly dumb The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. Orson Scott Card fashion real dream You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are. Orson Scott Card greater body humans Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. Orson Scott Card prison parent years Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. Orson Scott Card what-matters matter happens Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper Orson Scott Card My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you. Orson Scott Card feel-better men father You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me Orson Scott Card eye winning home Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone. Orson Scott Card what-matters gone together The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind. Orson Scott Card recess vision mind It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor . . . I fought to win. Orson Scott Card fighting winning life To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things. Orson Scott Card terrible choices two The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make. Orson Scott Card responsible choices soul The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place. Orson Scott Card crazy strong gone Perhaps I'm hiding from myself. Perhaps I don't want to be what I'm supposed to be. Or perhaps I don't want to keep living the life I already started to live. Orson Scott Card hiding live-life want Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable. Orson Scott Card something-new loyalty together When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them. Orson Scott Card stop-hating hate knows That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes. Orson Scott Card wall real home