Orson Scott Card Quotes
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.
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I don't see any difference between Judea and Samaria and the rest of the country.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.
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Cleaning up the mess in Washington is gonna take a whole lot of Iowa common sense.
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Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
