Napoleon failed as an essay writer, Shakespeare as a wool merchant, Lincoln as a storekeeper, Grant as a tanner - but none of them gave up. They moved into other fields, tried other things for which they were better suited, with the results we all know.
- Christopher Notes
Tonic for the Heart in 1000 bottles, Vol. 1
by Frank Mihalic, SVD
Dear friends how do we take our failures? Do we look for other things as the above mentioned persons did or do we just brood over our failures and give up hope and label ourselves 'failures'? We need to move on with failures as someone rightly said, "Failures are the pillars of life". It is through these experiences we learn in life. So let's ask ourselves when ever we fail to do something, 'What have I learned from this failure?'
