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    Terry Goodkind
    “People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”
    Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

  • #2
    Terry Goodkind
    “If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
    Terry Goodkind

  • #3
    Terry Goodkind
    “Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid”
    Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

  • #4
    Terry Goodkind
    “Fate does not seek our consent.”
    Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold

  • #5
    Terry Goodkind
    “Nothing is ever easy”
    Terry Goodkind

  • #6
    Terry Goodkind
    “no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.”
    Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

  • #7
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

  • #8
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

  • #13
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die,
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
    One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
    One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien

  • #16
    Robert Fulghum
    “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

  • #17
    Robert Fulghum
    “The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.”
    Robert Fulghum

  • #18
    Robert Fulghum
    “Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”
    Robert Fulghum

  • #19
    Robert Fulghum
    “If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.”
    Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not
    tags: humor

  • #20
    Robert Fulghum
    “I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’. ”
    Robert Fulghum

  • #21
    Robert Fulghum
    “Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away. ”
    Robert Fulghum

  • #22
    Robert Fulghum
    “It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.”
    Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

  • #23
    Robert Fulghum
    “Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.”
    Robert Fulghum

  • #24
    Robert Fulghum
    “Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.”
    Robert Fulghum, Maybe, Maybe Not

  • #25
    Voltaire
    “Perfect is the enemy of good.”
    Voltaire

  • #26
    Jim Collins
    “For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.”
    Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

  • #27
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
    Stephen R. Covey

  • #28
    Stephen R. Covey
    “We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.”
    Stephen R. Covey, First Things First

  • #29
    Stephen R. Covey
    “The way we see the problem is the problem.”
    Stephen R. Covey

  • #30
    Stephen R. Covey
    “You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!”
    Stephen R. Covey



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