failure

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Today__ experience prepares you for better tomorrow.

I've always felt like a failure inside if I'm not already a success, if that makes any sense.

We need to accept that we won__ always make the right decisions, that we__l screw up royally sometimes__nderstanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it__ part of success.

Fear and failure, they go hand in hand. They__e like dance partners with great rhythm.

Hugging himself, Oscar leaned against the pantry wall. For two days all he had wanted was for Caleb to come back, and now he was back and Oscar had made a mess of things: he had angered half the customers and confused the other half, and the coin boxes did not look as they should, and [rich, noble] people were complaining about him, and he couldn't look at anybody, and [redacted] was dead, and Oscar was odd.'What if he doesn't keep me?

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.

If he once failed as a father, it was a noble fail.

I think this was a nice idea we had in this country and a nice landscape to experiment with. But I think there comes a time in almost any experimentation or idea, where you have to evaluate it, maybe our time has come. In the context of the real world, not just the American world but all around, we haven't done too well. We are not a very good advertisement for the idea we represented. If you lose one wheel of the car, you might be able to get to the side of the road, and some freaks can make it on two, but if you lose three, man, you're in serious trouble. I think we've lost three.

What is failure to a person who is not afraid to learn from it and try again?

Although claiming my true identity as a child of God, I still live as though the God to whom I am returning demands an explanation. I still think about his love as conditional and about home as a place I am not yet fully sure of. While walking home, I keep entertaining doubts about whether I will be truly welcome when I get there. As I look at my spiritual journey, my long and fatiguing trip home, I see how full it is of guilt about the past and worries about the future. I realize my failures and know that I have lost the dignity of my sonship, but I am not yet able to fully believe that where my failings are great, 'grace is always greater.' Still clinging to my sense of worthlessness, I project for myself a place far below that which belongs to the son, (p. 52).

Don__ give up! Keep trying, your victory is certain.

And I will stop trying to fall in love again, and keep it a secret. It never works out anyway

As for your failures - stop calling them failures. Refer to them as "experiences". That's all they really are - just experiences.

Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

Well they were going to have to do a whole lot better than this if they wanted us Creeds to feel bad. If they thought they could hurt me or dad just by messing with my head at a tryout and cutting me from the team they had another thing coming. If there is one thing we Creeds knew how to succeed at, it was failure.

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.