Wisdom Quote by Orson Scott Card — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.”

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”

“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.”

“What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.”

“someone's sent”

“...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.”

“We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.”

“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”

“I’ll detach myself from the crowd if it hinders my growth,”

“We have become, without realizing it, the most demanding audience our own life has ever had.”

“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”