Failure is an opportunity.
If you blame someone else,
there is no end to the blame.
Therefore the Master
fulfills her own obligations
and corrects her own mistakes.
She does what she needs to do
and demands nothing of others. -“Tao Te Ching” by Lao-Tzu, Verse 79, (Stephen Mitchell Translation)
“If you’re not failing, you’re not learning. If you’re not learning, you’re not growing. If you’re not growing, you’re not living…We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at. If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed…The most useful trait you can train within yourself: To stop seeing failure as a bad thing. -Mark Manson
“In the archer there is a resemblance to the mature person. When he misses the mark, he turns and seeks the reason for his failure in himself.” -Confucius
“Put the thought of hitting right out of your mind! You can be a Master even if every shot does not hit. The hits on the target is only an outward proof and confirmation of your purposelessness at its highest, of your egolessness, your self-abandonment, or whatever you like to call this state. There are different grades of mastery, and only when you have made the last grade will you be sure of not missing the goal.” -Eugen Herrigel, Zen in the Art of Archery
More failure = More opportunity (to learn, to grow, to improve, to accept responsibility) = More success and fulfillment.
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