Orson Scott Card Quotes

Cute's good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it's, 'Who are you as a person?' Don't look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul. When you're dating a man, you should always feel good. ... You shouldn't be in a relationship with somebody who doesn't make you completely happy and make you feel whole.

I hope that I can make music that helps people in some way or that they can connect with, and that I can just live a life where I'm surrounded by people that I love.

It doesn't matter about money and fame and whatever. I really don't care about that. My thing is, I'm happy that I'm able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

I don't spend any time thinking about my place in history, ever. If people say I changed things, it's nice, and I take it - but if I could give it to a charity it would be useful. I really believe now that my only job in life is to achieve a state of comfort and happiness.

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

If I change people's lives, that's all that matters to me.

Success is not defined by money or status, necessarily, but by how many people you've impacted and how fulfilled you feel with your decisions. If you can garner all of these things, then more power and success to you, but all in all, you must feel happy and satisfied with what you personally have put out into the world.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

Find something that feels good, that resonates with your heart.

Every aspect of your life, whether it's a task or relationship, personal or professional, will be based on love and joy. And when you get right down to it, nothing else really matters.

When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

If one person is happier because you have lived, it is all worth it. And if you are that person, God is well pleased.

Success is measured by the memories you create.

The happiest people are those who have harvested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love.

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overhelmed with what comes back

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.

For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect - people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us - then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.