Terry Goodkind quote: "You don't love me, Sebastian. You don't have any idea what love really is. You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence, first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life. When you love yourself, your own existence, then you love someone who can enhance your existence, share it with you, and make it more pleasurable. When you hate yourself and believe your existence is evil, then you can only hate, you can only experience the shell of love, that longing for something good, but you have nothing to base it in but hatred. You taint the very concept of love, Sebastian, with your corrupted longing for it. You want me only to justify your hatred, to be your partner in self-loathing."

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.
TERRY GOODKIND

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is ...
TERRY GOODKIND

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
TERRY GOODKIND

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.
TERRY GOODKIND

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in ...
TERRY GOODKIND

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.
TERRY GOODKIND

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to ...
TERRY GOODKIND

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.
TERRY GOODKIND

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
TERRY GOODKIND

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there....
TERRY GOODKIND

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

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.
TERRY GOODKIND

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.
TERRY GOODKIND

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.
TERRY GOODKIND

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
TERRY GOODKIND

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of wh...
TERRY GOODKIND

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it...
TERRY GOODKIND

Bags!
TERRY GOODKIND

Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forwa...
TERRY GOODKIND

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

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

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think ...
TERRY GOODKIND

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.
TERRY GOODKIND

Your life is your own. Rise up and live it.
TERRY GOODKIND

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

I am who I am; no more, no less.
TERRY GOODKIND

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

Every war is a murderous struggle between foes. And yet, no army has ever marched into battle believ...
TERRY GOODKIND

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there ar...
TERRY GOODKIND

Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first ...
TERRY GOODKIND

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

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think ...
TERRY GOODKIND

Deserve Victory
TERRY GOODKIND

Fate does not seek our consent.
TERRY GOODKIND

You can't argue with the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them...
TERRY GOODKIND

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.
TERRY GOODKIND

The mice think they are right, but my cat eats them anyways." "This is the point, reality is nothing...
TERRY GOODKIND

The dead must heed them.
TERRY GOODKIND

In the darkest hours we must believe in ourselves.
TERRY GOODKIND

The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose,...
TERRY GOODKIND

… many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as the...
TERRY GOODKIND

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will...
TERRY GOODKIND

The first law of reason is what exists, exists;what is, is; and from this irreducible bedrock princi...
TERRY GOODKIND

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side
TERRY GOODKIND

The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond the truth, to admit they can learn more than...
TERRY GOODKIND

People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because peop...
TERRY GOODKIND

It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it wa...
TERRY GOODKIND

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish thing...
TERRY GOODKIND

You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of...
TERRY GOODKIND

Wizard's Seventh Rule
Life is the future, not the past.
TERRY GOODKIND

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true....or being afraid it...
TERRY GOODKIND

The second rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox b...
TERRY GOODKIND

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle ...
TERRY GOODKIND

People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they a...
TERRY GOODKIND

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

panicked people didn't listen to reason and didn't want to hear the truth.
TERRY GOODKIND

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can ta...
TERRY GOODKIND

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when ...
TERRY GOODKIND

Only those you trust can betray you.
TERRY GOODKIND

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you wer...
TERRY GOODKIND

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
TERRY GOODKIND

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go togeth...
TERRY GOODKIND

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above,...
TERRY GOODKIND

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
TERRY GOODKIND

there was no saving the world. the world was going to do what the world was doing [sic] to do.
TERRY GOODKIND

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.
TERRY GOODKIND

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

Richard straightened with a sigh. "People are often more willing to believe lies than truth. Lies ca...
TERRY GOODKIND

There is no such thing as compromising between civilization and savagery. Civilization must always d...
TERRY GOODKIND

Cara waggled a hand over the two of them. "It works better with your clothes off."
Richard frow...
TERRY GOODKIND

Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. "I like her, Lo...
TERRY GOODKIND

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't un...
TERRY GOODKIND

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If som...
TERRY GOODKIND

Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glo...
TERRY GOODKIND

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious ...
TERRY GOODKIND

The best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That's why the truth is so importa...
TERRY GOODKIND

We don't want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don't want to go back to way things were." She sounded on th...
TERRY GOODKIND

It's certainly no secret that American students are taught less and less about the canonical lit...
TERRY TEACHOUT

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
RANDALL TERRY

If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I eve...
TERRY BRADSHAW

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments...
RANDALL TERRY

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correctio...
RANDALL TERRY

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stu...
RANDALL TERRY

The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Ol...
RANDALL TERRY

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All ...
RANDALL TERRY

The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money ...
RANDALL TERRY

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is r...
RANDALL TERRY

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are...
RANDALL TERRY

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and s...
RANDALL TERRY

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
RANDALL TERRY

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong ...
RANDALL TERRY

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily toward...
RANDALL TERRY

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
RANDALL TERRY

He who frames the question wins the debate.
RANDALL TERRY

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other ...
RANDALL TERRY

We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dile...
RANDALL TERRY

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
RANDALL TERRY

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
RANDALL TERRY

I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
RANDALL TERRY

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, the...
RANDALL TERRY

Behaviors are a choice. Feelings are sometimes out of our control. Behavior has to do with choices.
RANDALL TERRY

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredib...
RANDALL TERRY

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That ...
RANDALL TERRY

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a f...
RANDALL TERRY

The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
RANDALL TERRY

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignor...
TERRY PRATCHETT

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has idea...
TERRY PRATCHETT

There are too many guns in the hands of people that shouldn't have guns. There is too much gun v...
TERRY MCAULIFFE

The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separate...
TERRY CREWS

It wasn't until the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was rat...
TERRY GLAVIN

Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage set, which you do with the captors, agreeing on each pie...
TERRY WAITE

I do not, in fact, use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect t...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at partie...
TERRY EAGLETON

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that f...
TERRY SOUTHERN

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS

The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati...
TERRY GLAVIN

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.
TERRY MCAULIFFE

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.
TERRY PRATCHETT

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.
TERRY PRATCHETT

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money....
TERRY PRATCHETT

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, becaus...
TERRY PRATCHETT

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite th...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.
TERRY PRATCHETT

The Haavara agreement allowed the escape of well-to-do German Jews in exchange for the liquidation o...
TERRY GLAVIN

I'm never going to write a book like Anthony Sher did, you know, 'The Broadcaster Prepares.&...
TERRY WOGAN

The BBC is the greatest broadcaster in the world. It's the standard that everyone measures thems...
TERRY WOGAN

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head ful...
TERRY PRACHETT

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisian...
TERRY BRADSHAW

People can make any political calculation they want. I make decisions what I think is in the best in...
TERRY MCAULIFFE

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friend...
TERRY GILLIAM

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios,...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You&#...
TERRY ZWIGOFF

Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought ...
TERRY EAGLETON

The digital apocalypse continues to blight the lives of television producers, music-industry executi...
TERRY TEACHOUT

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to st...
TERRY GILLIAM

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing...
TERRY EAGLETON

I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s...
TERRY TEACHOUT

Argentina has elected a centre-right president, Mauricio Macri. Bolivia's Evo Morales, having lo...
TERRY GLAVIN

It was commonplace to hear it said, after the Bosnian genocide kicked off in 1992 and the Rwandan ge...
TERRY GLAVIN

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are t...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the serge...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.
TERRY GROSS

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
TERRY PRATCHETT

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brand...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no la...
TERRY PRATCHETT

They stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was n...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
TERRY MCMILLAN

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary wh...
HELEN TERRY

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identif...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" TERRY PRATCHETT

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's wha...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the s...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still g...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and tryi...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
PAUL TERRY

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?
TERRY PRATCHETT

Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?
TERRY PRATCHETT

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of goi...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunders...
TERRY PRATCHETT

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
TERRY PRATCHETT

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.
TERRY PRATCHETT

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?
TERRY JOHNSON

Few religions are definite about the size of Heaven, but on the planet Earth the Book of Revelation ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
TERRY PRATCHETT

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it f...
TERRY PRATCHETT

All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Grinning like a necrophiliac in a morgue.
TERRY PRATCHETT

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.
TERRY EAGLETON

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in...
TERRY EAGLETON

HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE...
TERRY PRATCHETT

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach sma...
TERRY PRATCHETT

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surp...
TERRY PRATCHETT

[And there was the matter of Dick Turpin. It looked like the same car, except that forever afterward...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
TERRY PRATCHETT

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still aliv...
TERRY PRATCHETT

You can't map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Drag...
TERRY PRATCHETT

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused a...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Witches are naturally nosy,” said Miss Tick, standing up. “Well, I must go. I hope we shall meet...
TERRY PRATCHETT

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any th...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are mi...
TERRY PRATCHETT

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.
TERRY PRATCHETT

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new ...
TERRY PRATCHETT

If you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know whe...
TERRY PRATCHETT

We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves ...
TERRY HANDS

I don't think we can ignore the Modern Movement. But I wouldn't have minded at all if it hadn't happ...
QUINLAN TERRY

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
TERRY RILEY

It is silly to call fat people gravitationally challenged -- a self-righteous fetishism of language ...
TERRY EAGLETON

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally goo...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Imagination, industry, and intelligence -- the three I s -- are all indispensable to the actress, bu...
ELLEN TERRY

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented w...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec...
TERRY EAGLETON

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro...
TERRY MCCORMICK

Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue...
TERRY PRATCHETT

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ...
TERRY EAGLETON

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