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“Admitting defeat established a mental state of resignation that made it certain.” (Stone of Tears Quotes)
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Don’t shed tears over those already in the ground, until after you have brought vengeance to those who put them there. There will be time enough, then.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“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.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Good intentions, being kind, can encourage the lazy, and motivate sound minds to become indolent. The more help you give them, the more help they need. As long as your kindness is open-ended, they never gain discipline, dignity, or self-reliance. Your kindness impoverishes their humanity.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“He was the monster. That was what Kahlan saw. And she had sent him away in a collar to be tortured. Because he was a monster that needed to be collared, a beast.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“If war is brought to you, then it is incumbent upon you to show no mercy. Surely you will be shown none, and you will be a traitor to your people and as good as their enemy if you let any clemency slip its bounds, for your people will pay for your mistake with their lives.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“It should hurt, shouldn’t it? Shouldn’t it hurt to be ripped in half? But it didn’t. It didn’t hurt the least little bit. Cold. She felt only cold. But the warm rope of her guts laying against her face felt good. Warm. She took comfort in the warmth.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Knowledge comes as it will. Life’s lessons come at the most surprising times.” (Stone of Tears Quotes)
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Only a fool walks into the future backwards.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Reality could seldom match the imagination, and in the imagination, the pain was real.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Sometimes, that’s all life is: one desperate act after another.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Superstition needs no grounding in truth, but once rooted, it grows a strong though twisted tree.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“The mark of a wise person is being able to reach beyond for the truth, to admit they can learn more than they already know.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“The weapon which most readily conquers reason is terror and violence”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“There is no mercy when fighting the Keeper.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“They don’t, exactly. The threat of their intervention makes it unnecessary. Wizards call it the paradox of power: if you have power, and are ready, able, and willing to use it, you don’t need to exercise your power.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“When you hold your nose so high in the air, you can’t see where you are going.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Wizard’s Second Rule: The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.” (Stone of Tears Quotes)
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“You can’t expect to walk through life without stepping in the muck now and again. The important thing is to maintain your footing when you do, and not fall on your face and make it worse.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Zedd favored riding bareback. If he needed to ride a horse, he preferred to let the animal feel as unencumbered as possible. He thought it only fair. Most seemed to appreciate his consideration, this one especially.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
“Zedd had taught him that the creator was simply another name for the force of balance in all things, and not some wise man sitting in judgment.”
Terry Goodkind
Stone of Tears
