Terry Goodkind Quotes

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• If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

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  Truth, Adversity, Survival

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.277, Head of Zeus

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• Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

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  Appreciation, Falling In Love, Passion

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Chainfire”, p.175, Head of Zeus

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• I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

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  Giving Up, Mistake, Lying

  Terry Goodkind (2011). “Confessor”, p.180, Macmillan

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• Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

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  Weapons

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Temple Of The Winds”, p.141, Head of Zeus

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• The Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid; given proper motivation almost anyone will believe almost anything.

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  Motivation, Stupid, Believe

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• The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." -Richard

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  Mean, Reality, Thinking

  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.31, Macmillan

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• ...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

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  Friendship, Caring, Care

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.465, RosettaBooks

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• We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

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  Helping Others, Rewards, Needed

  Terry Goodkind (2018). “Debt of Bones”, p.96, Tor Fantasy

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• Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.

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  Mean, Choices, Charity

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The Pillars Of Creation”, p.253, Head of Zeus

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• Knowing when to fight is just as important as knowing how.

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  Fighting, Knowing, Important

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• Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

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  Fate, Way

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Temple Of The Winds”, p.67, Head of Zeus

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• Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

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  Honesty, Liars, Crowns

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.557, Head of Zeus

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• When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

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  Crazy, World, Pay

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The Pillars Of Creation”, p.202, Head of Zeus

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• Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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  Being Yourself, Individuality, Life Is

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• The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

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  Fear, Night, Light

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “The First Confessor: Sword of Truth: The Prequel”, p.425, Head of Zeus

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• I love you," she whispered. Richard pulled her tight against him. His fingers traced a trail down the bumps of her spine. "I feel so frustrated that there aren't any better words than "I love you,"" he said. "It doesn't seem enough for the way I feel about you. I'm sorry there aren't any better words to tell you." "They are words enough for me." "Then, I love you, Kahlan. A thousand times, a million times, I love you. Forever.

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  Sorry, Love You, Forever

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone Of Tears”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.

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  Courage, Choices, Sometimes

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Wizard's First Rule”, p.292, Head of Zeus

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• Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

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  Love Is, Finding Happiness, Want

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• Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight

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  Beautiful, Men, Sight

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood Of The Fold”, p.406, Head of Zeus

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• If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

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  Men, Matter, Should

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Naked Empire”, p.327, Head of Zeus

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• To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is..... Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.

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  Goes On, Vastness, Tiny

  Terry Goodkind (2011). “Confessor”, p.583, Macmillan

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• There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

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  Thinking, Effort, Liberty

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.514, Head of Zeus

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• Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.478, Head of Zeus

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• Wizard's Tenth Rule Willfully turning aside from the truth is treason to one's self.

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  Self, Wizards, Truth Is

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• Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.

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  Journey, Destination

  "Blood of the Fold". Book by Terry Goodkind, 1996.

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