Terry Goodkind Quotes

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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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I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!

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Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.

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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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Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength.

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When you insist someone submit to your will, it is accomplished most easily if you give them a small victory so they can retain their dignity while they do as you insist.

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There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

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But in the end, we can't live our lives by 'what if' and 'if only.' We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so important.

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Do you hate me because I have magic?" "Of course not." "Do you love me despite my magic?" He thought a minute. "No. I love everything about you, and your magic is part of you. That was how I got past the Confessor's magic. If I had loved you despite your power, I wouldn't have been accepting you for who you are. Your magic would have destroyed me.

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No army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

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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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