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Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

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Book, Writing, Heart
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.202, Macmillan

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

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Healing, Heart, Hands

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.

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Life Lesson, Heart, Men
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.97, Macmillan

But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart.

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Hate, Heart, People
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Speaker for the Dead”, p.271, Macmillan

Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.

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Lying, Heart, Cutting
Orson Scott Card (1996). “Earthfall”, p.10, Macmillan

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

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Heart, Battle, Warfare
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.184, Macmillan

Others find humanity by looking in their own hearts. Only lost souls need to search for it outside themselves.

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Heart, Soul, Humanity
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1034, Macmillan

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

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Father, Heart, Life Is
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.222, Macmillan

It is easy to say that you can adopt the whole human race as your children, but it is not the same as living in a home with a child and shaping all you do to help him learn to be happy and whole and good. Don't live your life without ever holding a child in your arms, on your lap, in your home, and feeling a child's arms around you and hearing his voice in your ear and seeing his smile, given to you because you put it into your heart.

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Children, Home, Heart
Orson Scott Card (2008). “Ender in Exile”, p.403, Macmillan

I don't hate you, I love you, you're part of myself, you're my heart and when you go it's my heart torn out and carried away--

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Hate, Love You, Heart
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.307, Macmillan

You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

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Heart, Battle, Warfare
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.308, Tor Science Fiction

someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up

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Hurt, Heart, Sadness
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.561, Macmillan

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

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Heart, Awkward, Language
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.60, Macmillan

If you lay a hand on me I'll ram your testicles so far up inside your abdomen it'll take a heart surgeon to get them out.

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Heart, Hands, Rams
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Children of the Mind”, p.86, Macmillan

Dona Crista laughed a bit. "Oh, Pip, I'd be glad for you to try. But do believe me, my dear friend, touching her heart is like bathing in ice." I imagine. I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

Orson Scott Card
Believe, Heart, Fire

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