Terry Goodkind Quotes - Page 4

Wizard's Fourth Rule There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

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. ~ Kahlan Mother Confessor

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Cara waggled a hand over the two of them. "It works better with your clothes off." Richard frowned. His voice came as a hoarse croak. "What?" She seemed mystified by the question. "I believe you will find such things work better without clothes." She put her hands to her hips. "I thought you would know at least that much.

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

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

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.

Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.

If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives, then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls. You think their ways are wrong. They think you are dinner.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

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.

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

When you're the leader, everything is your fault.

You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself

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

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

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

Hesitation is a mistake that invites defeat. I would not be Mord-Sith had I not hesitated when I was young." - Cara

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul