Terry Goodkind Quotes

I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.

I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

We are not guaranteed happiness. We are only guaranteed the right to pursue it.

My mom always told me if I love what I'm doing, and I'm having fun, then just continue to do it. But if it's not fun for me anymore, and I'm miserable, then I'm going to go back to Texas and quit it all, to be honest.

I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.

Regardless of what happens, when I'm seventy years old, I can look back and say that I did this the way I wanted to, on my terms, and I gave it everything I got.

I'd love it to be in Buffalo. I love football. But I know how important it is to live your life like you want to.

We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.

It's not easy to decide what is best for you in the future.

Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.

If you can't do what you want to do in your life, then it is difficult.

I don't want to think about what I'm doing in 20 years. All I want is I want to be happy, and I hope my family are healthy. And that's all, really.

You don't do everything in life in order to make money.

More choice doesn't make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.