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

Orson Scott Card

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“My dad had emphysema and both of my parents had chronic bronchitis and ended up with cancers - all smoking related.”
“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”
“Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.”
“Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.”
“In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.”
“In many ways, effective communication begins with mutual respect, communication that inspires, encourages others to do their best.”
“Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us....”
“The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.”

Source : "Homo Sapiens review - extraordinary vision of a post-human world" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2016.

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