Tom Balmes > Tom's Quotes

“This was life as it should be lived—proud, reasoned, and a slave to no other man.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“That's why your lot in life isn't fate. I don't have any say in much of my life, but I make whatever choices I can make in my own rational best interest. It's my choice to fix those stairs and make the place I live a little better instead of whining and waiting and hoping for someone else to do something for me. I have pride that I know how to do that for myself.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“Your life is yours alone, rise up and live it.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“The revolt. It will come. The Order cannot stand—evil cannot stand, not forever, anyway. In my homeland, when I was young, there used to be beauty, and there used to be freedom. They were shamed into giving up their lives, their freedom, bit by bit, to the cause of fairness to all men. People didn’t know what they had, and let freedom slip away for nothing but the hollow promise of a better world, a world without effort, without struggle to achieve, without productive work. It was always someone else who would do these things, who would provide, who would make their lives easy.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith Of The Fallen

“Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. “Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen

“Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I’m finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished.”
― Terry Goodkind, Faith Of The Fallen