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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.

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Orson Scott Card
Happiness, Pain, Worthy
Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.394, Macmillan

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.

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Hurt, Pain, Dirty
Orson Scott Card, Scott Orson (1997). “Children of the Mind”, Turtleback Books

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilful enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

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Pain, Failure, Book
"Speaker for the Dead". Book by Orson Scott Card, August 15, 1994.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

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Pain, Who I Am, Long
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.166, Macmillan

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and forever, no one would save him from it. Peter might be scum, but Peter had been right, always right; the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

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Pain, Forever, Doubt
"Ender's Game". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1985.

At first he thought he felt bad because he was afraid of leading an army, but it wasn't true. He knew he'd make a good commander. He felt himself wanting to cry. He hadn't cried since the first few days of homesickness after he got here. He tried to put a name on the feeling that put a lump in his throat and made him sob silently, however much he tried to hold it down. He bit down on his hand to stop the feeling, to replace it with pain. It didn't help.

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Pain, Army, Hands
Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.251, Macmillan

It will hurt." said Petra. "But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

Orson Scott Card
Hurt, Pain, Ruins
Orson Scott Card (2003). “Shadow Puppets”, p.101, Macmillan

The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

Orson Scott Card
Pain, Fear, Grief
Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1232, Macmillan

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