Terry Goodkind Quotes About Effort

• Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

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  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.305, Head of Zeus

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• There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

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  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.514, Head of Zeus

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• The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. This is the foundation from which life is embraced. Reason is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality–it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see." -Richard

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  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Faith of the Fallen”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

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  Terry Goodkind (2010). “Chainfire”, p.85, Macmillan

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