Orson Scott Card Quotes

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being.

If I could have one wish, it would be for people to look at one another with open hearts and minds. Most of all, to look at each other with compassion. No matter who they are.

I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

Love is so much bigger than our ignorance.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

There's nobody you can't love once you know their story. I believe that to be, in the majority, true.

We should never close our doors on love.

Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.

To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace.

Works of love are always to accept and respect others.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.