Terry Goodkind Quotes

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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

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He put the box in Kahlan's lap. As she picked it up, she gave him the biggest smile he had ever seen. Before he even knew what he had done, he had leaned over and given Kahlan a quick kiss. Her eyes went wide, and she didn't kiss him back, but the feel of her lips shocked him into realizing what he had done. Oh. Sorry," he said. She laughed. "Forgiven.

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Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.

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It isn't what kind of house you have that matters. This is not happiness. It's what kind of mind you have, and how you care for your fellow man — what you can do to help others who can be helped by no one else.

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Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

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Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

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It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.

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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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You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.

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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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Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.

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Dancing with death meant being committed to killing, committed with your heart and soul.

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Wizard's Sixth Rule The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

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Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

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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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Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

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Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

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Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

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Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

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