Terry Goodkind Quotes

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

To lead comes from a Latin root which literally means to go out and die.

One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of the most potent antidepressants that I've ever had. And on the other hand, there are moments when I feel imprisoned by the reality that I can no longer make my decisions just for myself, that I have to consider the interests of others.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

The purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done.

A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.

If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss.

My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how.

As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

Nobility and self-sacrifice sound wonderful in theory, but now he’s seen how it feels. A dead hero is still dead at the end of the day, and you’re still alone.

In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not take care of her and she died alone somewhere in the dark and there is no other dream nor other waking world and there is no other tale to tell.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for

Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others.

I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.