"The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief."

-- Confucius

#Grief Quotes #Moving Quotes #Inability Quotes

“Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.”
“Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.”
“Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.”
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us.”
“It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.”
“I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy.”
“Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.”
“Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.”

Source : John Scalzi (2012). “Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas”, p.136, Macmillan

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