There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides. Terry Goodkind More Quotes by Terry Goodkind More Quotes From Terry Goodkind You can destroy those who speak the truth, but you cannot destroy the truth itself Terry Goodkind speak-the-truth speak To the right person, the person who is truly born to it, duty is a form of love, through which all is possible. Duty is not always a denial of things, but an expansion of them to others. Duty is not always a chore, but is best carried out with love. Terry Goodkind denial expansion form How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is. Terry Goodkind do-you-know who-i-am knows To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own. Terry Goodkind desire sometimes mean Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind. Terry Goodkind mind littles character Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. Terry Goodkind live-life memories past ...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win. Terry Goodkind mind winning thinking I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way. Terry Goodkind strong unique inspirational 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. Terry Goodkind shoes pride people Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be. Terry Goodkind honesty honor wish 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. Terry Goodkind helping-others house men Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead. Terry Goodkind thrice lucky Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be. Terry Goodkind wardens boundaries Richard," Kahlan said, "what about Siddin? Weselan and Savidlin will be worried sick over him." Her green eyes gazed deep into his. She leaned closer, and whispered, "And we have unfinished business in the spirit house. I believe there is still an apple there we have yet to finish." Her arm tightened around his waist, and a little twist of a smile came to her lips. The shape of the smile caught his breath in his throat. Terry Goodkind unfinished-business eye believe 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. Terry Goodkind kissing eye sorry His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling. He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death. Terry Goodkind loneliness determination dark Bags, and Double Bags!" - Zedd Terry Goodkind bags Once committed to fight, cut. Everything else is secondary. Cut. That is your duty, your purpose, your hunger. There is no rule more important, no commitment that overrides that one. Cut. Cut from the void, not from bewilderment. Cut the enemy as quickly and directly as possible. Cut decisively, resolutely. Cut into the enemy’s strength. Flow through the gaps in his guard. Cut him. Cut him down utterly. Don’t allow him a breath. Crush him. Cut him without mercy to the depths of his spirit." -Richard Rahl Terry Goodkind crush fighting commitment 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. Terry Goodkind owl trying thinking Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost. Terry Goodkind sin weight bears