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.
Confidence can be a dangerous thing. Fear can keep you safe, sometimes.
Since the dawn of man, there have always been people bent on harming others. There have been periods of peace and enlightenment, and there have been dark times, but through it all, mankind survived. That cycle has repeated itself over and over. It wasn’t always easy, and despite those who would have it otherwise, life went on.
I know, Magda, your heart, and your loyalty to your love for me. But don’t let that be the end of your ability to love. That love wouldn’t harm me, or diminish me, or change what we had. It can only add to you and who you are. You need to embrace the reality of what is, not what was.
If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.
It’s so good to see you,” she whispered privately in the midst of the crowd. When she held him, there was no crowd, there was only him. There was always only him in her heart and soul.
I love you, Kahlan. Never anyone before you, nor ever after. Only you.” His eyes said it even better.
Zedd planted his fists on his hips and turned a look on Cara. “Now Mord-Sith have become experts in magic. What next?” “A talking machine,” Nicci said.
But you know how Richard feels. He thinks it would be wrong – more than that, he thinks it would be irresponsible to give in to such a wish when reason tells him he must not.
Nicci hugged her back. “You do know, don’t you, that I also love you?
Powerful people who lose power do not feel anguish and heartache like a jilted lover.
He had sometimes looked into her eyes and whispered to himself how bewitching she was, as if she weren’t there hearing him, as if he were all alone looking upon some exceptional specimen rather than his wife.
Save your anger for the enemy. Here it will do you no good; there, it can overcome fear. Use this time now to teach your sword what to do, so later it will do it without conscious thought.
You either had to fight evil as you encountered it, or evil would come to control your life.
Maybe I would like to see beauty again before I die.” “Bah. What would you carve? What would you see before you die? What could be worth your life?” “Man’s nobility – the most sublime form of beauty.
Better to see the dangers in the world and be ready when someone inevitably turns on you. It is a far preferable surprise to find that a person is kinder than you think, than to discover he is secretly a traitor.
My past is my story to keep, and my future will be written by me, in my own way, not through the control or influence of you or anyone else.
Fear triggers need, need powers sincerity. Sincerity is the required element.
I think old age is nature’s way of preparing us for death, making us more willing to take our leave of this world.
Hatred has such powerful emotions attached to it that others take it up out of fear. In that way, hate spreads like panic in a crowd.